Coronavirus: Chinese researchers’ device may detect infection in 10 minutes

Chinese researchers have developed a biological sensor they say can detect the new coronavirus in 10 minutes from a throat swab, based on initial study results.The sensing chip developed by a Peking University team fits a portable, laptop-sized device, and the scientists said it detected the Sars-CoV-2 viral gene almost instantly during their testing.A year after the coronavirus was first identified, it can take hours or days to get a result from the standard PCR – or polymerase chain reaction …

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