Publications by authors named "Ken Greenberg"
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- Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a growing global health concern, prompting the need for new technologies such as antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (APDI) to combat infections effectively.* -
- APDI employs photosensitizers that, once activated by specific light, produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) which damage bacterial cells and inhibit their growth, yet existing photosensitizers face challenges in mass production.* -
- Research introduces brominated carbon nanodots (BrCND) as novel and cost-effective photosensitizers that show promise for APDI, demonstrating significant antimicrobial effects against various bacteria, alongside a new mechanism of "dark" toxicity involving reactive nitrogen species.*
Rapid sample preparation is one of the leading bottlenecks to low-cost and efficient sample component detection. To overcome this setback, a technology known as Lyse-It has been developed to rapidly (less than 60 seconds) lyse Gram-positive and-negative bacteria alike, while simultaneously fragmenting DNA/RNA and proteins into tunable sizes. This technology has been used with a variety of organisms, but the underlying mechanism behind how the technology actually works to fragment DNA/RNA and proteins has hitherto been studied.
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