Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs

New submitter PJ6 writes: Three students attending the Isaac Newton Academy in the UK won the Healthcare Category of the Teen Tech Awards, for their idea to use antibodies to create color-changing condoms to recognize STDs. They say the material, which is still in the concept stage, will turn green for chlamydia, yellow for herpes, purple for HPV, and blue for syphilis. The BBC reports: "The boys said they still have to test the science and feasibility of their idea. They want to work with a university on the science and say they've already been contacted by a condom company which is interested in working with them on developing the concept further."

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Re:Must it be a condom?

[cdrudge]

Why limit it to just STDs? Or even just to diseases. How about cure all medical conditions. Should be pretty easy thing to accomplish.