Don't underestimate age - young or old
New HIV virus test developed, show a lot of promise and is using new technology for viral infection testing:
'Ticea used techniques that have been successful in identifying other viral infections and applied them to HIV for the first time. Rather than looking for antibodies to HIV, as the majority of existing tests do, Ticea amplifies the virus itself. This removes the window during which people are infected, but still show up as negative on antibody tests because the immune system has yet to gear up its response. Existing viral amplification tests for HIV are expensive and time consuming.'
'Ticea used techniques that have been successful in identifying other viral infections and applied them to HIV for the first time. Rather than looking for antibodies to HIV, as the majority of existing tests do, Ticea amplifies the virus itself. This removes the window during which people are infected, but still show up as negative on antibody tests because the immune system has yet to gear up its response. Existing viral amplification tests for HIV are expensive and time consuming.'
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/teenager-creates-new-hiv-test
What is interesting is that the title of the article is 'Teenager Creates New HIV Test'. Hm… why emphasising on the age of the researcher more than anything else? The answer is obviously to generate clicks on the link - and must admit, guilty as charged, I did click on the link didn't I? Age biases is a part of the human nature, but what I am curious of, is how to manage that. Since I am writing a scientific paper myself right now, based on a Case Study Methodology, managing biases is a part of the methodology. Being aware, is the first step.
Are you aware of your own biases? o.O
