User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2010 October 08 08:24:47 UTC

Infrared and detection of bacteria
This ties in with a few things here. Firstly cleaning out the fridge and checking for spoiled food. The most interesting thing though might be to view diseased tissue and try to discover what biological pathogens may be infecting it. There is so much information that would be available to use if only we could see infrared. Perhaps with better technology and the means to sense infrared we will be able to find out a lot more.

I found an article about using infrared light to detect bacteria in food:

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Quality-Safety/Infrared-used-to-instantly-detect-bacteria

This gives a link to the "Laboratory for Bioanalytical Spectroscopy" In Manchester UK:

http://www.biospec.net/

Under projects it says:

"Our research can be divided into several themes: (1) Mass spectrometry for high-throughput metabolomics; (2) Integrative omic analyses and systems biology for understanding biological systems; (3) Development of a wide variety of Raman spectroscopic methods; (4) Metabolomics and proteomics in health and disease; (5) Rapid characterisation of microorganisms; (6) Rapid characterisation of foodstuffs."

This is the kind of stuff we could use in Rejuvepedia. I am trying to see if I can get access to and dig in to some of their journal articles and research publications.