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The Northwestern University spinout's COVID-19 test returns results in 15 minutes using a single-use cartridge and portable analyzer.

A new highly sensitive, easy-to-use test for COVID-19 that requires a single swab and 15 minutes has received emergency use authorization (EUA) status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Developed at Northwestern University’s Center for

A new highly sensitive, easy-to-use test for COVID-19 that requires a single swab and 15 minutes has received emergency use authorization (EUA) status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Northwestern spinoff receives $21.3M from NIH to manufacture COVID-19 test Highly sensitive PCR test takes 15 minutes, using cereal box-sized device A user inserts a small cartridge, holding a nasal swab sample, into a DASH system. A new, highly sensitive, easy-to-use test for COVID-19 that requires a single swab and 15 minutes has received $21.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx SM) initiative. Developed at Northwestern University’s�...

Northwestern develops revolutionary COVID-19 rapid test Northwestern develops revolutionary COVID-19 rapid test Northwestern University has developed a new COVID-19 rapid test that could simplify and quicken testing. The PCR test, which detects RNA that is specific to the virus within days of infection and is considered the “gold standard” for COVID-19 detection, will only require a single swab and 15 minutes before a positive or negative result is given. The device itself, Diagnostic Analy...

Northwestern spinoff company Minute Molecular Diagnostics was awarded a $21.3 million grant from National Institutes of Health to produce pilot cartridges for a COVID-19 test that takes a single swab, according to a Monday University news release.  The technology, called Diagnostic Analyzer for Specific Hybridization, was developed at the Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies, where McCormick Prof. David Kelso and Director of Research Sally McFall co-led device development. In ad...