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The National Institutes of Health has awarded eight research grants to refine new technologies for early diagnosis of severe illnesses resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection in children.
Engineers Design New Face Masks With Test Strip to Detect COVID â Much Like a Pregnancy Test Jan 30, 2021 Similar to a classic pregnancy test, a color-changing strip may, in the future, be mounted on face masks to detect the presence of COVID-19 in the air you breathed that day, allowing everyone to self-monitor the environments they pass through. The project was launched by nanoengineers at UC San Diego with a $1.3 million grant from the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Radical (RADx) program. The scientists created a small test kit to attach to the front of any mask, which can...
January 27, 2021 Marshallese Pacific Islanders living in the United States are a community that has been hit hard by COVID-19. Like other high-risk groups, Marshallese often serve as frontline workers and suffer from widespread disparities in health care contributing to an increased prevalence in conditions such as type 2 diabetes that escalate COVID-19 risk. By Susan McLaughlin, WSU iREACH Washington State University wants to find ways to better identify and reduce COVID‑19 infection in vulnerable minority and rural groups. Marshallese Pacific Islanders living in the United States are one ...
Sticky Test Strips For Virus Masks Show Promise Almost from the start, medical experts have been trying to come up with ways to enhance the safety and effectiveness of virus masks. To say nothing of the new trend to double up on two different types. Researchers at the University of California San Diego think they may have the trick. They’ve been working on sticky test strips that can be placed on the outside of masks. They’re designed to be able to detect SARS-CoV-2 in either the breath or saliva of the user. They may look odd. But if they work it could be a novel breakthrough. Like many ...
Thought LeadersJesse JokerstAssociate ProfessorDepartment of NanoEngineering, UC San Diego AZoSensors speaks with Jesse Jokerst who heads up the Jokerst group at UC San Diego. The group has recently developed an affordable COVID-19 monitoring sensor that can be applied to facemasks. The team's research has benefitted from a $1.3 million investment from the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Radical (RADx-rad) program for COVID-19. Can you give our readers a summary of your recent research? My research in general is in the area of imaging an...