{"id":28163,"date":"2024-11-21T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28163"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:02:15","slug":"arotrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/arotrack\/","title":{"rendered":"AroTrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About AroTrack:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It accurately <strong>detects harmful <\/strong>aromatic xenobiotic <strong>pollutants<\/strong> such as phenol or benzene, xylenols.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>uses proteins typically<\/strong> found in bacteria living in heavily polluted environments to effectively identify multiple aromatic pollutants in water.<\/li>\n<li>This protein undergoes a highly selective <strong>ATP hydrolysis chemical reaction<\/strong> if an aromatic compound is present in the sample.<\/li>\n<li>This reaction is expressed with a change in the colour of the protein solution, which AroTrack can then detect.<\/li>\n<li>AroTrack contains a <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/light-emitting-diode-led\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>light emitting diode [LED]<\/strong><\/a><strong>-phototransistor assembly<\/strong> that shines a light of appropriate wavelength through the sample and detects how much is absorbed.<\/li>\n<li>The key component of the device is a <strong>biosensing module called MopR<\/strong> &#8211; a sensitive sensor for detecting phenol.<\/li>\n<li>The device also reliably worked in water <strong>temperatures up to 50 degrees<\/strong> Celsius and completed the tests <strong>in less than 30 minutes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> It&#8217;s low<strong> cost, battery-operated nature<\/strong>, and portability can be ideal for rural and low-income settings that often lack resources and have difficulty accessing expensive laboratory tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Xenobiotics?<\/h3>\n<p>These are substances foreign to living systems and include drugs, pesticides, pollutants, carcinogens, volatile petrochemicals, food additives, and polluted working environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/iit-bombay-scientists-develop-water-pollutant-detecting-device-arotrack\/article68883355.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IIT Bombay scientists develop water-pollutant detecting device \u2018AroTrack\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AroTrack  accurately detects harmful aromatic xenobiotic pollutants such as phenol or benzene, xylenols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}