POSTS TAGGED AS influenza

Dipstick Test for Simultaneous Multistep Assays

Multistep Lateral Flow Devices for Advanced Assays
“Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a lateral flow test platform that can perform [MORE]

The Next “Big One”

Preparing for the Next Pandemic
This piece isn’t about half of California dropping into the Pacific, or Miami being blown away [MORE]

Device uses AI to Diagnose Influenza

FluSense device flu-like illnesses and influenza trends
“University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine [MORE]

Diagnosing Influenza on a Smartphone

Diagnosing influenza via a smart phone
Engineers at the University of Tokyo have designed a battery powered device which can array [MORE]

Anti-Viral Surgical Masks

Face mask
Pictures from the Great Influenza at the end of World War I show groups of people wearing surgical masks [MORE]

Microfluidic Purification of a Rare Antibody

Human B Lymphocyte
This year’s flu season showed a weakness in preparation: vaccine manufacturers used an antibody for a narrow subset [MORE]

Wyss’ Organ-on-a-Chip for Modeling Influenza

Organ-on-a-Chip
It has been 99 years since the great influenza pandemic that killed many more people than had died in World [MORE]

Universal Flu Vaccine

3D Model of Influenza with Hemagglutinin
Last year’s influenza vaccine in the US was only 19% effective. The reason for that [MORE]

Optofluidic Flu Strain Scanner

UCSC MicrofluidicChip
Quoting directly from this piece: “New on-chip technology enabled researchers from UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University to [MORE]

Monitoring Influenza

Influenza Virus
In 2018, the world will mark a centennial since the great influenza pandemic that killed far more people than [MORE]

“Social Mixing and Respiratory Transmission in Schools”

Mote
Annual influenza visitations involve two factors: the strain of the virus, and the traffic pattern in which it moves. [MORE]