They plan to use the method in conjunction with a saline swish-gargle test developed by
The team s latest research using water samples – done in collaboration with
Kelly A. Reynolds, chair of the Department of Community, Environment and Policy in the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health – is published today in Nature Protocols. We ve outlined it so that other scientists can basically repeat what we did and create a norovirus-detecting device, said
Lane Breshears, a biomedical engineering doctoral student in Yoon s lab. Our goal is that if you want to adapt it for something else, like we ve adapted it for COVID-19, that you have all the ingredients you need to basically make your own device.