Contact: Michael Seele
mseele@bu.edu
617-353-9766
Boston University College of Engineering

Microfluidic Flu-Detection Chip Developed at Boston University

Caption: The chip accepts a nasal specimen, extracts influenza A RNA, converts it into DNA and replicates it to yield a sufficient sample that can be detected by an external reader.

Credit: Boston University

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