Ah-choo! Is it hayfever or COVID? Why you should get tested, and how to do it with magnetic nanoparticles

from Lost in Science · host Nicholas Kirkwood

This week it's the COVID-testing episode, as Claire speakes to materials chemist Nicholas Kirkwood, whose lab normally researches better solar panels, but retooled in the pandemic to make magnetic nanoparticles for PCR tests; and with hayfever season on the way, Stu explains why you still need to get tested if you show any symptoms.

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