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How do pregnancy tests work?

Tien Nguyen · TED

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About

Over-the-counter pregnancy tests give potentially life-changing results with a pretty high rate of accuracy. But how do they work? Tien Nguyen explains how each test performs a scientifically rigorous, multi-stage experiment that goes from start to finish in the time that it’ll take you to watch this video. [Directed by Andrew Foerster, narrated by Susan Zimmerman].

The talk

  1. How do pregnancy tests work? 5 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Tien Nguyen
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Engineering, Art, architecture and design, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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