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New test can detect COVID-19 in 20 minutes. – Brinkwire
A professor at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has developed a robust, reliable assay for COVID-19 that returns results in less than 20 minutes.
Stephen Bustin, professor of molecular medicine at ARU and a leading expert in quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which is widely used to detect infectious SARS-CoV-2 in cells, has developed the assay, called Cov2-ID, with colleagues at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
The test detects three viral targets, making it more reliable than ot…
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