Singapore brings on-site COVID-19 test results in one hour
Singapore, June 30 -- A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a portable COVID-19 micro-PCR diagnostic system - called Epidax - that enables rapid and accurate on-site screening of infectious diseases and significantly reduces the time required to analyse patient samples.
Epidax, which is a microfluidics-based PCR diagnostic system, is about the size of a toaster and very portable. It can be deployed quickly and easily on-site for virus infection screening.
Currently, nasal swab samples are first collected at a clinic or testing site, and sent to a laboratory for processing to extract the RNA, before the PCR test is conducted.
The Epidax system uses a specially designed microfluidic chip that c...
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