Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat The Pandemic?

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The lab-on-a-stick that lets us know if we’re pregnant is a genius little innovation that can be utilized to rapidly figure out everything from whether there are nuts in our chocolate to whether we have COVID.

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Early Pregnancy Test: An easy lateral flow assay that checks for the existence of a specific hormone in urine.
Lateral Flow Assay: Simple tests in which a liquid sample is run along the surface area of a pad using capillary action and colored antibodies to show a visual positive or unfavorable result.
Blood vessel Action: The movement of water-based liquids within little tubes due to the forces of cohesion, adhesion, and surface stress.
Antibody: A blood protein produced by the body immune system in reaction to a particular antigen.
Antigen: A foreign substance which produces an immune reaction within the body.
False favorable: A result produced that wrongly suggests a particular antigen exists.
False negative: An outcome produced that wrongly suggests that a particular antigen is absent.

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Sensitivity improvement in lateral circulation assays: a systems viewpoint. Obtained from: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ lc/c9lc00104 b #! divAbstract.

Advancement in Lateral Flow– Based Immunoassay Systems. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119943/

Collins, F. (2020). Charting a Fast Course Toward Better COVID-19 Tests and Treatments. NIH Director’s Blog. Retrieved from: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/08/06/ charting-a-rapid-course-toward-better-covid-19- tests-and-treatments/

Shen, A. Personal Interaction (2020). Director, Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Innovation. https://groups.oist.jp/mbnu

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