A faster and easier test for viruses has been developed by Hong Kong university students which could speed up treatment and save lives by allowing doctors to make quicker decisions and gain critical time when faced with the threat of an epidemic.
The testing method, designed by a team of 15 undergraduates at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has already been put to work on influenza A viruses in preliminary experiments, where it was able to identify subtypes in about an hour.
That time was...
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