A scientist with an entrepreneurial edge, Dr. Shalini Prasad innovations include a rapid fentanyl detection system, a DIY food safety tester, and a wearable healthcare monitor—each designed to give users critical, real-time information. [Photo: UTD}
Combining cutting-edge research and real-world applications, the UT Dallas professor transforms public health with innovations in detection technology, including “a check engine light” for the human body. In collaboration with EnLiSense, the company she cofounded, Dr. Prasad combines chemistry with software and hardware to bring the technology to life as market-ready devices.
The recent nationwide alert about E. coli-laced organic carrots is just the latest example that our food safety isn't guaranteed. Now a research team at UT Dallas is exploring a way that people can do a final check for contaminants—right in their own homes.
Allen-based EnLiSense—co-founded by a professor and department head of bioengineering at UT Dallas—said the wearable features its proprietary passive-sweat sensor technology, which "non-invasively" rests on your skin, day and night, continuously measuring biomarker levels.
A UT Dallas team has developed a handheld sensor that can help first reponders detect whether fentanyl has been used. The sensor includes the use of "gold nanoparticles" and can detect fentanyl with "98% accuracy," the researchers say.
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North Texas is a big place, with plenty to do, see, hear, and watch. We scour the internet every week to find events and activities for you. As always, things may change at any time, so be sure to check the official website or registration page for the latest details....
Brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the brain’s remarkable ability to change, adapt, and reorganize throughout our lives as we grow and learn. However, in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), learning results in the memories and sensory information surrounding a traumatic event permanently connecting to the emotional part of the brain that drives fear and anxiety, known as the fight-or-flight response....
Dallas-Fort Worth is charting its own path in artificial intelligence. From applied AI to groundbreaking research to technical breakthroughs, our region leads in advancing real-world solutions. Behind every breakthrough and real-world solution are the individuals making it happen....
The Department of Defense is implementing new cybersecurity requirements that will affect more than 300,000 contractors—including many in Texas—who must meet stricter security standards or risk losing defense contracts, Southern Methodist University officials said in an announcement....
Often cities can have a gap between healthcare opportunities and its unhoused population.
In Fort Worth a group of medical students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is helping to bridge that gap via the Street Medicine Student Coalition....