NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering professors have been
collaborating with researchers from Peking University on a new test strip that
is demonstrating great potential for the early detection of certain heart
attacks.
Kurt H. Becker, a professor in the Department of Applied
Physics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and WeiDong
Zhu, a research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, are helping develop a new colloidal gold test strip for
cardiac troponin I (cTn-I) detection.