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STI detecting condoms
25 Jun 2015 at 05:57hrs | Views
Three schoolboys behind a colour-changing, STI-detecting condom say they've been contacted by a contraceptive company about their idea.
Daanyaal Ali, Chirag Shah, both 14, and Muaz Nawaz, 13, won a TeenTech award this week for their idea, called S.T.Eye.
They want to create a condom that changes colour when it detects an STI.
Muaz told Newsbeat: "We wanted to make a product that will make life simpler, easier, better."
Their idea - which is still at concept stage - involves a condom covered with antibodies that would react with the proteins in bacteria, or antigens, found in STIs.
The students said the colour change would work on both sides of the condom, with different colours for different STIs - green for chlamydia, purple for genital warts, blue for syphilis and yellow for herpes.
Daanyaal Ali, Chirag Shah, both 14, and Muaz Nawaz, 13, won a TeenTech award this week for their idea, called S.T.Eye.
They want to create a condom that changes colour when it detects an STI.
Their idea - which is still at concept stage - involves a condom covered with antibodies that would react with the proteins in bacteria, or antigens, found in STIs.
The students said the colour change would work on both sides of the condom, with different colours for different STIs - green for chlamydia, purple for genital warts, blue for syphilis and yellow for herpes.
Source - BBC
