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Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a pico-calorimeter that can detect metabolic heat signals on the order of 100 picowatts in living cells.
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Harvard, United States
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Joost Vlassak, Juanjuan Zheng
What
Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a pico-calorimeter that can detect metabolic heat signals on the order of 100 picowatts in living cells.
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Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:49:00 GMT · 3h 22m ago
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Harvard, United States ·
Why
This device can track the metabolism of small populations of bacteria in real time and monitor how bacterial growth responds to different antibiotics.
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The new pico-calorimeter offers a highly sensitive and direct method to measure cellular metabolism and drug response, potentially enabling earlier detection of antibiotic resistance and diseases like sepsis by analyzing minute bacterial populations in hours instead of days.
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