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UArizona researchers develop smartphone-based COVID-19 test – EurekAlert
The team is adapting a smartphone-based method — originally designed to detect the presence of norovirus — for COVID-19 testing.
IMAGE: UArizona researchers image a sample using a smartphone microscope.
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Credit: UArizona Biosensors Lab
Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes.
The UArizona research team, led by biomedical engineering professor Jeong-Yeol Yoon, aims to combine the speed of existing nasal swab antigen tests with the high accuracy of nasal swab PCR, or polymerase…
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