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Rapid detection of traumatic brain injury

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An optofluidic chip incorporating a surface-enhanced Raman-scattering substrate rapidly detects picomolar concentrations of biomarkers of traumatic brain injury in finger-prick blood samples from patients.

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Fig. 1: An optofluidic chip with electrohydrodynamically fabricated SERS substrates can detect picomolar concentrations of biomarkers of TBI in finger-prick blood samples.

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  1. Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA

    Chunyan Li & Raj K. Narayan

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA

    Kevin A. Shah & Raj K. Narayan

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Li, C., Shah, K.A. & Narayan, R.K. Rapid detection of traumatic brain injury. Nat Biomed Eng 4, 579–580 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0574-1

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