Re: [DIYbio] Isothermal microcalorimetry for bacterial activity.


If you're looking for a field-able method for mycobacterium detection, you might look at improvising from the existing MGIT:


Thermal differences on the scale needed for mycobacteria would be very difficult to put into the field. If you insisted on going this route, you could probably fish up something similar to what is used in thermal conductivity detectors for gas chromatography.


In other words, back to the ol' Wheatstone bridge.



On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Markos <markos@c2o.pro.br> wrote:
Hi,

I've been thinking to experiment common temperature sensors (Eg: NTC) to measure microbial activity.

And today I found this paper:

http://blogs.nature.com/spoonful/2011/08/researchers_measure_bacterias.html

Would be possible to use a NTC thermistor, and Arduino for data acquisition, for detecting temperature changes in a medium containing bacteria and nutrients in a DIY approach?

Has anyone had any practical experience with this technique?

Thanks,
Markos

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