{"id":39663,"date":"2021-12-10T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/scientists-ostrich-cells-glowing-covid-detection-masks"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:43:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:43:25","slug":"scientists-use-ostrich-cells-to-make-glowing-covid-detection-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39663","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use ostrich cells to make glowing Covid detection masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese researchers use bird antibodies to detect virus under ultraviolet light<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect Covid-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto Prefectural University in western Japan, could provide for low-cost testing of the virus at home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/scientists-ostrich-cells-glowing-covid-detection-masks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese researchers use bird antibodies to detect virus under ultraviolet lightCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect Covid-19 by glowing under ultrav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,918,337,1066,65,914,88,512,916,299,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-biology","category-birds","category-coronavirus","category-environment","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39664,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663\/revisions\/39664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}