Tag: Richard Novak

  • Nation & World

    Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19

    The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

    9 minutes
    Nasal swabs.
  • Nation & World

    Creating a smoking machine

    Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed an instrument that smokes cigarettes like a human, and delivers whole smoke to the air space of microfluidic human airway chips. The machine may enable new insights into how nonsmokers and COPD patients respond to smoke.

    5 minutes