This researcher at Virginia Tech uses a waterproof bag to capture air, in the development of a COVID air sampling device. (Courtesy Virginia Tech) Researchers at Virginia Tech are working on a device ...
Subin Han was one of the millions worldwide who contracted COVID-19. As she recovered in quarantine at her parents’ home in Seoul, South Korea, the young scholar wondered how people could better ...
A team of scientists and doctors has developed a capability to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA -- the nucleic acid coding for the virus that causes COVID-19 -- indoors through air sampling. When ...
The study is published in the journal Microbiome. "We realized that we could use face masks as a cheap, easy air-sampling device for personal exposures and general exposures," said Northwestern's ...
New research shows 100 per cent effectiveness of an innovative breath sampling device developed by Northumbria University medtech spinout, PulmoBioMed, that could revolutionize diagnosis of a range of ...
Researchers used worn face masks and an aircraft HEPA filter as low-cost, noninvasive tools to sample and analyze airborne microbes. The findings show that shared indoor air is dominated by harmless, ...