Engineers Design New Face Masks With Test Strip to Detect COVID â Much Like a Pregnancy Test
Jan 30, 2021
Similar to a classic pregnancy test, a color-changing strip may, in the future, be mounted on face masks to detect the presence of COVID-19 in the air you breathed that day, allowing everyone to self-monitor the environments they pass through.
The project was launched by nanoengineers at UC San Diego with a $1.3 million grant from the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Radical (RADx) program.
The scientists created a small test kit to attach to the front of any mask, which can be mass produced at a cost of about 3 cents per kit.