New test to detect arsenic contamination in drinking water

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New test to detect arsenic contamination in drinking water

Several arsenic testing kits are available on the market, but they require expensive machinery to read the outputs, and almost all of them use mercury bromide, which is extremely toxic.

Dr Jim Ajioka from the Department of Pathology, along with Dr Jim Haseloff from the Department of Plant Sciences and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, has designed a whole-cell arsenic biosensor that is cheap, non-toxic and easy to use.

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