October 11, 2018, Filed Under: 2018, Featured, MosquitoI Hate Mosquitoes DIY Diagnostics is a great FRI for a hands-on experience in creating and building your own experiment as well as making new friends. The stream is exciting and very self-driven, you are given freedom and the independence to conduct research at your own pace, with mentors and Dr. Riedel available… read more
December 16, 2017, Filed Under: 2017, MosquitoSurge of Confidence My DIY Diagnostics experience was a little different than most. I was introduced to the DIY stream in the early summer of 2017 through the ARI (Advanced Research Initiative). I chose this stream, as I felt it would give me the freedom to learn how to solve real-world issues in… read more
January 28, 2016, Filed Under: collaborators, DIY Research, MosquitoDIY funded by Gates GCE Grant for Mosquito Diagnostics Undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens. These diagnostics will combine a simple mosquito-processing device by Paratus Diagnostics with molecular technology to transduce the presence/absence of pathogens into a chemical signal for reading on a common pregnancy test strip. Freshman… read more
