Richard Stein

Determining the residual viral load after antiviral therapies is a difficult problem.  However, Richard Stein, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in Germany, has created a mathematical model that simulates electrical, thermal and hydrodynamic forces that generate flow vortices, acting like centrifuges, in micropumps which holds promise for isolating very small numbers of viral particles.         MORE

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