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Ag Develops Listeria Biosensor

Stephanie Cannon '06 May 27, 2015 8:24 AM updated: May 27, 2015 8:30 AM

A Texas A&M AgriLife Research engineer and a Florida colleague have developed a biosensor that can detect listeria bacterial contamination within two or three minutes.

“We hope to soon be able to detect levels as low as one bacteria in a 25-gram sample of material – about one ounce,” said Dr. Carmen Gomes, AgriLife Research engineer with the Texas A&M University department of biological and agricultural engineering.

Read more at today.agrilife.org.


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