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NTU researchers develop method to tell if someone has Covid-19 or dengue in just 36 minutes – The Straits Times
SINGAPORE – Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine have come up with a way to tell if a person has Covid-19 or dengue in just 36 minutes.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine have come up with a way to tell if a person has Covid-19 or dengue in just 36 minutes.
This is just one quarter of the time taken by current testing methods for the same diseases, NTU said on Monday (July 27).
At the moment, the most sensitive way to detect Covid-19 is through a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique in a laboratory, which uses a machine to “amplify” viral genetic mater…
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