Study: Portable, point-of-care COVID-19 test could bypass the lab

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) As COVID-19 continues to spread, bottlenecks in supplies and laboratory personnel have led to long waiting times for results in some areas. In a new study, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign researchers have demonstrated a prototype of a rapid COVID-19 molecular test and a simple-to-use, portable instrument for reading the results with a smartphone in 30 minutes, which could enable point-of-care diagnosis without needing to send samples to a lab.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news