Equine asthma is the most common respiratory disease in horses. However, early diagnosis remains a significant challenge. Non-specific symptoms and invasive standard procedures such as bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) often result in the disease being detected only at an advanced stage.
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Reliable diagnostic and predictive biomarkers are lacking for many diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS). Cerebrospinal fluid, due to its immediate proximity to the CNS, holds significant diagnostic potential. Yet exploiting it requires novel technologies capable of detecting very low analyte concentrations. The LinCA project addresses this challenge by developing sensitive analytical methods for CSF-based biomarker detection.
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LEGIOPLAS is an interdisciplinary research project aimed at developing a portable, photonics-based measurement system for the rapid detection of Legionella bacteria in drinking water. Instead of the conventional laboratory culture method, which takes about two weeks to produce results, this plasmonic sensor is designed to rapidly detect Legionella bacteria—including epidemiologically relevant subspecies such as Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses IZI-BB