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 material by copying it over and over again so any trace of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, can be detected.
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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 material by copying it over and over again so any trace of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, can be detected.
More at https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-if-someone-has-covid-19-or-dengue-in-just-36
