Stanford University researchers have developed aptamer-antibody chimeras that achieve dynamic, sensitive, and specific biomolecule sensing beyond the capacity of antibodies or aptamers alone.
This nanoparticle platform for electric field detection is the first inorganic platform to use both intensity and spectro-ratiometric (relative color change) readout for the determination of local electric fields in vitro, in vivo, and in situ.
Researchers in Dr. Leonore Herzenberg's lab at Stanford have developed this technology and another (see Stanford Docket S15-009) to improve the ease and accuracy of flow cytometry experiments.