Scientists of the Chemical-Technological Institute of Ural Federal University won a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. RSF supported a research project that will help solve the problems of a comprehensive pre-symptomatic diagnosis of socially significant diseases. Modern diagnostic laboratories use instrumental biochemical methods of analysis: enzyme immunoassay, a method based on a polymerase chain reaction, serological, as well as bacterial culture methods with colony counting.
“All these diagnostic procedures require a lot of time, material and labor costs, and are also purely laboratory, while the task is often to quickly identify the source of infection “on the spot” or make an accurate diagnosis directly “at the patient’s bedside”. The creation of portable means for express diagnostics, focused on personalized use outside the medical institution, will make it possible to substantially approach the solution of the above problems,” said Alisa Kozitsina, director of the innovative center for chemical and pharmaceutical technologies.
Scientists plan to solve two main problems. The first is to synthesize and study the properties of complexes of electroactive metal cations (Ni2 +, Co2 + and others) and synthetic polymers containing fragments of 2,2’-bipyridine or its azanalogs.
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