{"id":4629,"date":"2018-11-15T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:21:03","slug":"4629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/4629\/","title":{"rendered":"Longitude Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4630 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/11\/P1010443-K1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Orbital Diagnostics team\u00a0is in the running for the \u00a38 million Longitude Prize for their SLIC device.\u00a0 The scattered light integrated collector (SLIC) can detect minute amounts of bacteria in a urine sample and test which antibiotic it can be treated with in about half an hour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p>Professor Gillespie recently spoke with The Telegraph about the device \u201cWe\u2019ve gone into the hospital and tested it and we know it works,<\/p>\n<p>what we\u2019re hoping is that someone with no training can put the urine sample into the SLIC, will press\u00a0a button and within half an hour they\u2019ll know what antibiotic to treat the patient with,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">T<\/span>he prize was due to be be awarded in September 2019 but has been put back to at least 2020 because of the stringent criteria set by the prize and because teams are starting from scratch, says Mr Berman of Nesta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p>The full article can be found on The Telegraph&#8217;s website below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/wiggle-ometer-latest-weapon-fight-against-superbugs\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orbital Diagnostics team is in the running for the \u00a38 million Longitude Prize for their SLIC device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[917,1049],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-prof-stephen-gillespie","tag-slic"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 15:10:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}