Chennai, Aug. 27 -- Highlights:

* A smartphone device has been developed that can detect norovirus in contaminated water

* It uses antibody-tagged fluorescent polystyrene beads on a paper-based //microfluidic chip platform

* The test is highly sensitive and can detect very low levels of norovirus

A smartphone device has been created that can detect minute amounts of a virus called norovirus. The device, developed by a team of researchers at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, is simple, cheap and portable and is capable of detecting minute levels of the virus.

The work, which has been published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Omega, is also being presented at the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting (and) Exposition on 25-...