UCSB scientists develop smartphone-based COVID-19 test
- Deanne Drexler
- February 7, 2022
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A group of local scientists and professors is trying to make COVID-19 testing more easily accessible around the globe. “We came up with a smartphone-based COVID and influenza test diagnostic,” said Douglas Heithoff, UC Santa Barbara Mahan Lab Project Scientist. About a year and a half ago, a research team of about ten UC Santa […]
Read MoreApp uses smartphone cameras to test for Covid, with high accuracy
- Deanne Drexler
- January 30, 2022
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- Covid
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Researchers continue working to make it much easier — and cheaper — to test for Covid-19. A team led by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, announced Friday that it has designed a system that uses a smartphone’s camera to perform Covid tests, with accuracy that could match lab-based PCR tests. In a […]
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Read MoreWall St Week Ahead Tech giants’ earnings may be another test for markets at new highs
People are seen on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Investors are homing in on a flood of earnings reports from Wall Street’s tech and Internet giants, as the high-growth stocks that have led markets […]
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