Olivia Hallisey, a 17 year old girl who designed a low cost, transportable test for Ebola, is the grand prize winner of the 2015 Google Science Fair.
Hallisey’s diagnostic for the Ebola virus provides final results in significantly less than 30 minutes and makes it possible for for speedy detection even when sufferers lack any symptoms.
The design and style includes a silk-containing card that stores Ebola antibodies for up to a week with out refrigeration.
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Hallisey, a 17 year old junior at Greenwich Higher College in Connecticut, told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” Tuesday additional about her methodology.
“Up to 90 percent of victims will die without having early diagnosis and health-related intervention. Present detection methods are highly-priced, time-consuming and make use of complicated instrumentation and chemical compounds that require uninterrupted refrigeration. My device will let for shipment and storage with out refrigeration, and provide detection of the Ebola viral antigens primarily based on colour change in as tiny as 30 minutes.”
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