Kiwi scientists develop a Covid-19 breath test to replace nose swabs
They developed a proof of principle for a new Covid-sensing test that could dramatically decrease turn-around times for testing, and increase the number of tests that can be performed. The research was triggered and made possible by the Covid-19 pandemic, as it allowed resource that would have been allocated elsewhere to be directed to the study, following the national lock down in March and April 2020. “Over lockdown, we started brainstorming how we could adapt existing biomolecular sensing approaches to detecting Covid. The key insight is that you need a ‘recognition element’ tha...
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