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Published online 13 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021111-4
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Chemosensors for the marine toxin saxitoxin
Cheap, convenient chemical could spot deadly toxin in fish and shellfish.
Florida-based chemists are developing a sensor with which fish farmers and conservationists might spot the poison that flourishing algae produce in coastal waters. They have found a compound that glows only in water that contains the toxin1.
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