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E-Mail HOUSTON - (Feb. 22, 2021) - Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection. The researchers at Rice s Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco, civil and environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and structural virologist Yizhi Jane Tao will team with William Lawrence, a microbiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston to develop a thin film electronic device that senses as few as eight SARS-CoV-2 viruses in 10 minutes of sampling air flowing at 8 liters per minute.
NASA-Based ActivePure Technology Rapidly Eliminates 99.9% of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Virus in FDA-Compliant Military Lab Tests Developer Scaling Production to Meet Global Pandemic Needs DALLAS, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ ActivePure Technologies, LLC, announced that its air purifying technology inactivated over 99.9% of highly concentrated airborne SARS-CoV-2 virus in an enclosed setting in just 3 minutes, below detectable levels. Testing of the ActivePure Technology was conducted by one of the world s top biosafety testing facilities, the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), which primarily tests for the U.S. military and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology in a laboratory setting, said Dr. William S. Lawrence, PhD, director of the Aerobiology Services Division at UTMB s Galveston National Laboratory.