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Stanford researchers create a highly automated device that can detect COVID-19 in 30 minutes – News-Medical.Net
Throughout the pandemic, infectious disease experts and frontline medical workers have asked for a faster, cheaper and more reliable COVID-19 test.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 5 2020
Throughout the pandemic, infectious disease experts and frontline medical workers have asked for a faster, cheaper and more reliable COVID-19 test. Now, leveraging the so-called “lab on a chip” technology and the cutting-edge genetic editing technique known as CRISPR, researchers at Stanford have created a highly automated device that can identify the presence of the novel coronavirus in just a half-hour.
“The microlab is a microfluidic chip just half…
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