Kriya Medical Technologies gets DCGI nod for RT-PCR kitPriced at Rs 150 plus taxes, the test is affordable and most suitable for entry point screening at airports, the company said in a statemen...
14 Feb, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
Stocking up on home-testing kits? Doctors believe the pricier RT-PCR test is a better optionThere has been a surge in demand for self-testing kits as Covid-19 cases rise across the nation.
15 Jan, 2022, 10.12 AM IST
Omicron sibling can't be detected by imported RT-PCR kits: ExpertsThe elusive sibling (sub-lineage) of the Omicron variant, BA.2, cannot be picked up by the imported RT-PCR kit having an S gene drop, resea...
03 Jan, 2022, 04.22 PM IST
Export curbs on Covid diagnostic kits revokedAt a meeting last week, one of the empowered groups on Covid-19 management recommended that export restrictions be lifted from Covid-19 dia...
09 Oct, 2021, 07.19 AM IST
Supreme Court to take up fresh plea seeking to fix maximum rate for RT-PCR test to Rs 300A three-judge bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat will take up the plea which also seeks early r...
29 Jun, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
Government weighing faster tests, vaccine approval, say officialsRT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests may not be the need of the hour because it detects viruses even when a perso...
23 Apr, 2021, 08.11 AM IST
Now, shortage of RT-PCR kits adds to Maharashtra’s Covid-19 woesThe lack of RT-PCR tests is mainly being blamed on the state government’s notification earlier this month making it mandatory for all home ...
10 Apr, 2021, 06.49 AM IST
New Thermo Fisher manufacturing facility in Bengaluru to produce COVID-19 testing kits for India"Applied Biosystems CoviPath COVID-19 RT-PCR Kit has been approved under MDR 2017 rules for in vitro diagnostic use by the Indian Council f...
16 Feb, 2021, 04.09 PM IST
COVID-19: RT-PCR test conducted at IIT Delhi at just Rs 1200The laboratory is conducting the tests through RT-PCR kit COROSURE developed with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The COROSURE t...
04 Nov, 2020, 07.13 AM IST
Reliance develops RT-PCR kit that can give COVID-19 results in 2 hoursThe sources said computational biologists at Reliance Life Sciences, a subsidiary of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries Ltd,...
02 Oct, 2020, 03.48 PM IST
GenePath Diagnostics develops quantitative COVID-19 test kit for drug makersThe kit is currently being used by a couple of unidentified drug makers in India, said GenePath Diagnostics CEO Nickhil Jakatdar. He said t...
22 Sep, 2020, 05.31 PM IST
Indian companies ready to export coronavirus test kits, target Latin America, Eastern Europe marketsIndia has a manufacturing capacity of 1 billion RT-PCR kits. The country on an average is doing daily testing of 600,000 samples.
10 Aug, 2020, 09.02 AM IST
Karnataka sees a drop in RT-PCR tests as government pushes for cheaper antigen kitsThe more expensive RT-PCR test is considered the gold standard in detecting Covid-19 infections. Of the 42,458 tests done on August 3, 29,4...
06 Aug, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
Covid-19 diagnostic test makers want export ban lifted as demand for kits from Indian states slow downThe reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests, known as RT-PCR tests, are the gold standard in diagnosing Covid-19. The demand ...
11 Jun, 2020, 10.30 PM IST
Government certifies nearly 80 Made-in-India Coronavirus testing kitsSo far largely USFDA approved kits were permitted in India due to paucity of validation and certifications labs in the country as a result ...
11 Jun, 2020, 01.32 PM IST
Genie Labs to make IIT-Delhi's PCR diagnostic assay kit for Covid-19While standard RT-PCR kits in the market are probe-based, this design does away with probes completely. Instead it detects COVID-19 specifi...
03 Jun, 2020, 09.22 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