Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?
The lab-on-a-stick that lets us know if we’re pregnant is a genius bit of technology that can be used to quickly determine everything from whether there are nuts in our chocolate to whether we have COVID.
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- Early Pregnancy Test: A simple lateral flow assay that tests for the presence of a particular hormone in urine.
- Lateral Flow Assay: Simple tests in which a liquid sample is run along the surface of a pad using capillary action and colored antibodies to show a visual positive or negative result.
- Capillary Action: The movement of water-based liquids within small tubes due to the forces of cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension.
- Antibody: A blood protein produced by the immune system in response to a particular antigen.
- Antigen: A foreign substance which produces an immune response within the body.
- False positive: A result produced that falsely indicates a particular antigen is present.
- False negative: A result produced that falsely indicates that a particular antigen is absent.
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