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One Diagnostic Chip for 200 Viruses

New Microchip based on biomolecules is not alien technology
Seems similar to Elizabeth Holmes’ blood test, but this microchip has a [MORE]

New Technique for Virus Hunting

Six different bioaerosol samplers
“An evaluation of methods and instrumentation used for airborne virus collection concludes that samplers operating cyclone sampling [MORE]

The Gut Virome Database (GVD)

Human gut virome
Here’s a new frontier in human biology—the gut virome.  Researchers at Ohio State University have compiled the first [MORE]

Identifying Viruses with a Microfluidic Device and Raman Spectroscopy

Identifying Viruses with a Microfluidic Device and Raman Spectroscopy
“We [physicists and biochemists at Penn State] demonstrate that multiple emerging virus [MORE]

Lab-Made Mimic of SARS-CoV-2

Lab researcher
In order to engineer a virus that mimics SARS-CoV-2 without causing COVID-19’s severe symptoms, virologists at Washington University in [MORE]

Cold Plasma Reactor for Killing Airborne Virus

Cold plasma for airborne viruses
Agricultural engineers at the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota know “cold,” and in this [MORE]

Hydrogel with Tunable Bioactivity

Healing gel
“A hydrogel that incorporates billions of bacteriophages forms a material that is self-healing and also offers antibacterial services for [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]

Phage Therapy

Genetically engineered phage therapy
A teenage girl developed an antibiotic-resistant infection following a lung transplant to treat cystic fibrosis.  Her prospects [MORE]

CRISPR as a Genetic Search Engine

Crispr Cas9 protein RNA complex
Heretofore, most of the news about CRISPR was about gene editing, unintended off targeting, and the [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]

Seven Sensors for the Near Future of Medicine

Johns Hopkins Biosensor for Brain Injury
Wearable, implantable and ingestible biosensors are the devices that make precision medicine more precise. In [MORE]

Salt Coating on Surgical Masks Inhibits Virus

Surgical Mask
It has been 99 years since the Great Influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. Old pictures [MORE]

Urine Test for Virus

Human Cytomegalovirus University of Texas Urine Test
An inexpensive and quick test for viral infections is only slightly more urgent because [MORE]