Grace is a current Chemical Engineering student and undergraduate researcher at the University of Florida, planning to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering. She has particular interests in antimicrobial resistance and CRISPR Cas systems, but mainly hopes to provide as much accurate scientific knowledge to the public as possible.
During the pandemic, laboratories across the world worked hard to improve current diagnostic testing methods. The main method, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) turns a small quantity of DNA into a larger amount and uses fluorescent dyes to indicate the presence or absence of viral genetic material. However, this method falls short in the following […]
“Thanks to penicillin… he will come home!” pronounced a Life magazine advertisement published in 1944. At this time, penicillin, the first true antibiotic drug, had just been discovered and made commercially available. Antibiotics are drugs that prevent or treat bacterial infections. Before the advent of penicillin, the leading causes for death were bacterial infections resulting […]
Researchers from the University of Florida, along with collaborators from the National Chiao Tung University, recently created the world’s fastest COVID detection test to date using a new method with antibody-infused test strips and a small circuit board. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, RT-PCR tests, commonly referred to as PCR, have been regarded […]
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