Scientists and public health experts built the COVID-19 pandemic response on years of experience navigating infectious disease outbreaks. Although lateral flow immunoassays have been central to ...

Lateral flow assays, also called immunochromatographic assays, identify or measure biomolecules in intricate samples like blood, saliva, urine, or other fluids to diagnose numerous medical conditions.

For the nearly 40-year history of the lateral flow assay industry, the lateral flow test strip has been made from nitrocellulose. Developed in the 1800's, nitrocellulose is formed by treating ...

Specifically, the team is hoping to create seaweed-based housings to replace traditional petroleum plastics without changing the way such diagnostic lateral flow tests work. To accomplish this, the ...