{"id":4062,"date":"2023-07-11T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:45:57","slug":"washington-university-scientists-develop-an-air-monitor-that-can-detect-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/07\/11\/washington-university-scientists-develop-an-air-monitor-that-can-detect-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington University Scientists Develop An Air Monitor That Can Detect Covid-19 Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2023\/07\/11\/washington-university-scientists-develop-an-air-monitor-that-can-detect-covid-19-virus\/?sh=27e3af0d7be1\">Forbes<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/source.wustl.edu\/2023\/07\/air-monitor-can-detect-covid-19-virus-variants-in-about-5-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis<\/a>&nbsp;has developed a real-time air monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants that are present in a room in about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proof-of-concept device was created by researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine at Washington University. The team includes&nbsp;<strong>Rajan Chakrabarty<\/strong>, the Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in McKelvey Engineering;&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Puthussery<\/strong>, a postdoctoral research associate in Chakrabarty\u2019s lab;&nbsp;<strong>John Cirrito<\/strong>, professor of neurology at the School of Medicine; and&nbsp;<strong>Carla Yuede<\/strong>, associate professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results are contained in a July 10 publication in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-39419-z\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Communications<\/a>\u00a0that provides details about how the technology works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2023\/07\/11\/washington-university-scientists-develop-an-air-monitor-that-can-detect-covid-19-virus\/?sh=27e3af0d7be1\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes A&nbsp;team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis&nbsp;has developed a real-time air monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants that are present in a room in about 5 minutes. The proof-of-concept device was created by researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine at Washington University. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}