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Development of the home pregnancy test

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2004) 1038 220-222
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1315.030
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Abstract

The home pregnancy testworks by measuring human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone in urine. This hormone was initially studied in NICHD intramural laboratories as a reliable marker of certain tumors. Refinement of the assay for hCG detection to enhance specificity enabled its ready application to pregnancy detection. © 2004 New York Academy of Sciences.

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Vaitukaitis, J. L. (2004). Development of the home pregnancy test. In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Vol. 1038, pp. 220–222). New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1315.030

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