28.08.2011                      28.Aw-Elul, 5771

Drogen-Nachweis:

TAU sensor can ID ‘date rape’ drug

New Worlds: Exciting new chemical bond, discovered by Technion researchers, may open door to new, special catalysts.

A sensor that detects the presence of “date rape” drugs has been developed by chemistry department researchers at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences. Prof. Fernando Patolsky and Dr. Michael Ioffe of the School of Chemistry say the system, based on optical signal changes, is 100 percent accurate – with no “false-positives” – in detecting the presence of the most common date-rape drugs.
When a ray of light comes into contact with a beverage spiked with a date- rape drug, the system alerts the user….