We are grateful for the generous contributions to the DIY Stream by Bob and Cathy O’Rear! Alumnus Helped Usher in Age of Personal Computing and Guide Lunar Astronauts Home
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Texas Memorial Museum
Ellington Lab
Bob and Cathy O’Rear
DIY funded by Gates GCE Grant for Mosquito Diagnostics
Undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens. These diagnostics will combine a simple mosquito-processing device by Paratus Diagnostics with molecular technology to transduce the presence/absence of pathogens into a chemical signal for reading on a common pregnancy test strip. Freshman… read more