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  • Inexpensive, portable detector identifies pathogens in minutes

    Electrical and computer engineering professor Brian Cunningham co-led a multi-institutional team to demonstrate an inexpensive and rapid smartphone-based pathogen testing device designed to ease pressure on testing laboratories during pandemics such as COVID-19.

    Electrical and computer engineering professor Brian Cunningham co-led a multi-institutional team to demonstrate an inexpensive and rapid smartphone-based pathogen testing device designed to ease pressure on testing laboratories during pandemics such as COVID-19.

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  • Editor’s notes:

    To reach Brian Cunningham, call 217- 265-6291; email bcunning@illinois.edu.

    The paper “Smartphone-based multiplex 30-minute nucleic acid test of live virus from nasal swab extract” is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00304B