Rebecca Ye of Bangor, Maine, is the U.S. winner of the 2010 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international competition for water-related research, during a ceremony June 20 at the Sheraton City Center in St. Louis, Mo.Her work, “Nanoparticle-amplified immunosensor enables excellent sensitivity in rapid detection of viable E. coli O157:H7,” combined the sciences of microbiology and nanotechnology to create a biosensor capable of rapid identification strains of pathogenic bacteria E. Coli. The proposed technique represents a major advance in providing rapid and specific identification of the bacteria so that corrective measures can be quickly and reliably
