{"id":1380,"date":"2014-04-24T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2014-05-02T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:06:14","slug":"lab-in-a-pill-improves-remote-water-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/lab-in-a-pill-improves-remote-water-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lab-in-a-pill\u2019 improves remote water testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1379\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/png_base6434df845a9cd6063c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1379\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/png_base6434df845a9cd6063c.png\" alt=\"A new way of encapsulating enzymes and other reactants needed for for water testing in a pill could allow inexpensive tests for water contaminants in the developing world. (Photo credit: Matt Terry, Office of Public Relations, McMaster University)\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new way of encapsulating enzymes and other reactants needed for for water testing in a pill could allow inexpensive tests for water contaminants in the developing world. (Photo credit: Matt Terry, Office of Public Relations, McMaster University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take a cup a water, drop in a pill and shake it up; if the water turns purple, your well could be contaminated with bacteria. Such test are now possible thanks to a new method for encapsulating enzymes &#8211; including those used in lab tests for bacterial contamination &#8211; in a material called pullulan, the same stuff from which melt-in-your-mouth breath strips are made. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The technology could help test water for bacteria, metals or other contaminants in places where labs are not easy to access, including developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Video <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKsaPUsn15I\" target=\"_blank\">available here.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/anie.201403222\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Angewandte Chemie<\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 24, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca\/people\/faculty\/232-john-brennan\" target=\"_blank\">John Brennan<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, McMaster University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/chemeng.mcmaster.ca\/faculty\/carlos-filipe\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Filipe<\/a>,\u00a0McMaster University, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a cup a water, drop in a pill and shake it up; if the water turns purple, your well could be contaminated with bacteria. Such test are now possible thanks to a new method for encapsulating enzymes &#8211; including those used in lab tests for bacterial contamination &#8211; in a material called pullulan, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,50,476,1285,1284],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-safety","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/png_base6434df845a9cd6063c-e1399173256402.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}