Mysuru: In collaboration with Hyderabad-based Lorven Biologics Private Limited, the University of Mysore (UoM) has jointly developed a self-Covid detection kit.
Former vice-chancellor of Mysore University and a member of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), KS Rangappa said that the kit has an accuracy of more than 90 per cent. Rangappa led the team of researchers.
The press meet was jointly announced by UoM vice-chancellor G Hemanth Kumar and Rangappa at Vijnana Bhavan on the university’s campus here, reported news agency IANS.
“The unique feature of the kit is that a barcode strip is linked to an app. As soon as the barcode is scanned, the health status of the patient (whether tested positive or negative) is updated in the server, thereby enabling the governing agencies to monitor the cases immediately. The recent technologies in molecular biology, nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence were used in the development of the kit,” the research team explained via a press release.
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