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Researchers from IIT Bombay, UK university develop low-cost sensor that can detect Covid in wastewaterThe sensor was tested with wastewater collected from a sewage treatment plant in Mumbai.12 Jun, 2021, 06.34 PM IST- UK, Indian scientists develop low-cost sensor to detect COVID-19 in wastewaterResearchers from the University of Strathclyde and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have developed a technology that can be ...10 Jun, 2021, 03.56 PM IST
- Covid-19: NEERI develops ‘saline gargle’ RT-PCR testThe method is simple, fast, cost-effective, patient-friendly and comfortable, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) sai...29 May, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
- New COVID-19 testing method gives results in one second, scientists sayThis can greatly reduce the cost of testing, the researchers said. The technology can not only detect COVID-19 but can also be applied to o...20 May, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
- UP to scale up RT-PCR tests as new Covid cases threaten to overwhelm stateThe CM has directed that the state increase the number of RT-PCR tests to 150,000, UP’s additional chief secretary of information, Navneet ...12 Apr, 2021, 09.48 PM IST
- Mumbai airport cuts RT-PCR test rate by 30 per cent to Rs 600Mumbai airport is offering the regular RT-PCR test at a reduced cost of Rs 600 as against Rs 850 earlier from April 1 to the passengers opt...02 Apr, 2021, 08.48 PM IST
- ICMR approves CSIR's COVID-19 testing method that can help ramp up number of RT-PCR testsThe Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a simple and fast method for COVID-19 testing which can not only increase the n...28 Nov, 2020, 07.59 PM IST
- Researchers develop new, inexpensive COVID-19 test that doesn't use scarce reagentsThe method, described in the journal PLOS Biology, omits the step in the widely used reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PC...04 Oct, 2020, 04.09 PM IST
- Mildly ill COVID-19 patients might be discharged in nine or more days after symptom onset: StudyScientists have assessed respiratory samples from 35 COVID-19 patients, and found that contagious coronavirus was "rarely detectable" beyon...06 Aug, 2020, 06.08 PM IST
- HC stays proceedings against Ganga Ram Hospital in COVID-19 norms violation matterJustice C Hari Shankar said he was "convinced" that "tested on principles of prima facie case, balance of convenience and public interest" ...22 Jun, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
- CCMB develops new, low-cost testing method for covid-19; ICMR nod awaitedIt eliminates the time-consuming RNA extraction in testing and imported viral transfer medium (VTM), required to transfer the swab samples ...17 Jun, 2020, 02.33 PM IST
- COVID-19: Guidelines issued for RT-PCR based pool sampling of migrants, returnees from abroadThe same testing technique would also be used for monitoring in green zones districts which have reported no cases till now or in the last ...14 May, 2020, 02.58 PM IST
- Goa diagnostic company’s tuberculosis device could help scale up Covid-19 testingTruenat, a product of Molbio Diagnostics that’s been used to detect tuberculosis, also speeds up the reverse transcription polymerase chain...12 May, 2020, 07.30 AM IST
- Kerala Institute says it has a faster and cheaper test for COVID-19A Kerala-based institute has developed a diagnostic test for Covid-19 which it claims can furnish results in less than half the time taken ...17 Apr, 2020, 07.54 AM IST
- Kerala institute Sree Chitra Tirunal develop new cheaper test for coronavirusThe test kit can detectthe "N Gene of SARS COV2 using reverse transcriptase loop-mediated amplification of viral nucleic acid (RT-LAMP). We...16 Apr, 2020, 09.57 PM IST
- Highly sensitive blood test for cancer detection developedThe highly sensitive test requires only a fraction of a tube of blood and can detect as few as three mutation-bearing molecules in a single...14 Aug, 2017, 01.58 PM IST
- Researchers develop paper-based test to diagnose Ebola, dengueThe paper-based device changes colour, depending on whether the patient has Ebola, yellow fever or dengue, which can help diagnose the dise...19 Aug, 2015, 12.49 PM IST
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