Congratulations to Heather Whitehead, whose paper on instrument-free detection of DNA with Nile Blue was just accepted by Analytical Methods!
Many nucleic acid tests (NATs) rely on a DNA amplification step as the detection mechanism for pathogens, viral load, and so on. Usually, DNA concentration is measured using a spectrophotometric instrument that costs tens of thousands of dollars. In this paper, Heather Whitehead used an inexpensive…