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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, successfully designed a cellphone based tool that can test, monitor and detect HIV viruses, making it a boon for regions with limited resources and less access to hospitals.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, successfully designed a cellphone based tool that can test, monitor and detect HIV viruses, making it a boon for regions with limited resources and less access to hospitals.
Teens win big for pollution control and HIV detection
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Teens win big for pollution control and HIV detection
Airline passengers, breathe easy. New research to help improve the air quality inside planes is getting ready for takeoff. A 17-year-old’s design for rerouting the airflow in planes claimed the $75,000 top prize at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF. One day the devices could reduce the transmission of disease among passengers.
Two other teen researchers earned awards of $50,000 each at the event. One developed a technique to more quickly diagnose infections by HIV. It’s the virus responsible for AIDS. The other invented a device to more quickly shut down undersea oil spills.
Those awards represent just a fraction of the roughly $4 million handed out here on May 15. Intel ISEF attracts some of the world’s best and brightest teen researchers. Launched in 1950 and now sponsored by Intel Corp., ISEF is a program of Society for Science & the Public. (SSP is also the parent organization of Science News for Students.) This year, 1,702 high-school finalists participated. They represented 422 affiliate science fairs in 78 countries, regions and territories. More than one-third of the finalists received an award here for their research.
Raymond Wang took home $75,000 this year for winning Intel ISEF’s top prize, the Gordon E. Moore award. It’s named for Intel’s co-founder. Raymond attends St. George’s School in Vancouver, Canada. This teen used sophisticated software to analyze the flow of air inside aircraft cabins.
From these data, he designed a low-cost deflector. The device easily could be installed in an aircraft’s ventilation system. Today, much of the flow of air tends to move around the cabin at nose level, Raymond notes. His adaptation instead would send the air downward. This would blow the germs from sneezes and coughs toward the floor. That simple change should reduce the numbers of germs inhaled by passengers by more than 98 percent, according to Raymond’s calculations. Also, the deflector should almost triple the amount of fresh air available to passengers.
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