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 Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies (CIGHT), the point-of-care technology is being...