{"id":4039,"date":"2020-05-05T23:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2020-05-06T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:09:39","slug":"developing-a-rapid-at-home-covid-19-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/developing-a-rapid-at-home-covid-19-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a rapid at-home COVID-19 test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some exciting work is being done in our lab in collaboration with the Hardy and Andrew Research Group! Here, we&#8217;re developing a &#8220;smart swab&#8221; at-home test kit. Due to the current pandemic, the most important aspect to slowing down the spread is through testing. Our design is similar to a pregnancy test, where one can take a swab of either their nose or throat and observe a color change due to the presence of a protein found from the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Look for us on the Western Mass News! &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernmassnews.com\/news\/umass-researchers-working-to-develop-at-home-covid-19-test\/article_502dec90-8f0c-11ea-af9d-4b74bb11f788.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a>&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2020\/05\/smart-swab-e1588738097619.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some exciting work is being done in our lab in collaboration with the Hardy and Andrew Research Group! Here, we&#8217;re developing a &#8220;smart swab&#8221; at-home test kit. Due to the current pandemic, the most important aspect to slowing down the spread is through testing. Our design is similar to a pregnancy test, where one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}