{"id":214,"date":"2020-07-13T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:41:09","slug":"straits-times-nus-invents-new-way-to-produce-covid-19-swab-40-million-to-be-produced-in-coming-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/2020\/07\/13\/straits-times-nus-invents-new-way-to-produce-covid-19-swab-40-million-to-be-produced-in-coming-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Straits Times: NUS invents new way to produce Covid-19 swab, 40 million to be produced in coming months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a new method of producing nasopharyngeal Covid-19 testing swabs and are preparing to produce 40 million of them in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">NUS deputy president of innovation and enterprise Freddy Boey said on Monday (July 13) that Singapore has been relying on suppliers from the United States, Italy and other parts of Europe for its swabs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But the surge in coronavirus cases around the world has led to a global shortage as countries turn to mass testing to reopen their economies.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That prompted two NUS research teams to link up with Temasek Foundation and develop three different nasopharyngeal swab designs that can be made using 3D-printing and a manufacturing process known as injection moulding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This has given Singapore the capability and know-how to produce its own swabs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Professor Boey said he believes this makes Singapore the first country in Asia to use 3D-printing to produce swabs and the first in the world to use injection moulding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nasopharyngeal swabs are small, flexible sticks that are inserted through the nose to the back of the nasal cavity to collect fluid samples. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They need a specially designed tip to capture and retain the fluid in order for the test to be accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a new method of producing nasopharyngeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}