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A paper-based sensor for detecting COVID-19 – News-Medical.Net
News-Medical talks to Dipanjan Pan about the development of a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect COVID-19 in less than five minutes.
What led you to begin this research?
The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has literally changed the way we lead our lives. The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) demands accurate and mass-scale diagnosis to prevent the transmission of this virus.
But there is a scarcity of rapid diagnostic tests along with inaccessibility of advanced instrumental techniques to all the diagnostic centers, especially the remote ones. This major…
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