Equine Biotech, a startup incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit called "GlobalTM diagnostic kit" for accurate and affordable diagnosis of COVID-19, said Indian Institute of Science.
Equine Biotech, a startup incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit called "GlobalTM diagnostic kit" for accurate and affordable diagnosis of COVID-19, said Indian Institute of Science.
The test kit is based on the Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, which is reportedly "the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis". The test kit has been approved for use in authorised COVID-19 diagnostic labs by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The test takes about 1.5 hours to confirm the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in patient samples, Indian Institute of Science informed.
Utpal Tatu, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, IISc, and founder of Equine Biotech shed more light on the Equine Biotech startup and the indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic test kit for COVID-19.
"Our startup has been working on testing for coronavirus infections for many years, even before the COVID-19 pandemic started. This experience has helped us engineer the kit for COVID-19," Tatu was quoted as saying in an IISc statement.
The kit is an easy-to-use, multiplex RT-PCR kit with 100 per cent specificity, and its run time is relatively short when compared with the kits available in the industry, according to the startup.
It is currently seeking to licence its new COVID-19 test kit and work with med-tech companies and other industries for mass producing, marketing and distribution of these kits.
(With agency inputs)
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