Assistant professor Chadin Kulsing from Chulalongkorn University’s chemistry department inspecting a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odours, in Bangkok. — AFP
For Bangkok market sellers, the armpit sweat soaking their T-shirts during the humid monsoon season may contain subtle signs of coronavirus infection, local scientists have said.
Thai researchers are developing a sweat-based mobile virus detector, and road-tested it on shopkeepers at a Bangkok food market this week.
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Assistant professor Chadin Kulsing from Chulalongkorn University’s chemistry department inspecting a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odours, in Bangkok. — AFP
Chadin demonstrating how sweat samples are collected, as his team develops a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odours, in Bangkok. — AFP
Chadin inspecting a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odors, in Bangkok. — AFP
Chadin demonstrating how tubes containing sweat samples are decontaminated, as his team develops a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odors, in Bangkok. — AFP
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