Brown students create rape kit for faster result turnaround
By News Staff
Two students at Brown University have created a sexual assault kit that can help drastically reduce the turnaround time for rape tests.
Bella Okiddy and Richard Park, both studying biomedical engineering, founded the company called ‘Technologies Against Assault’.
The company will make sexual assault kits and forensic lab kits with technology that can reduce the results reporting process from months and years…to just weeks.
The new kits can more quickly confirm and validate survivor experiences.
The technology features color-changing cotton swabs that activate when they come in contact with semen.
Additional tests would still be required for DNA matching.
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