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The 1-SWITCH project aims to develop a rapid Covid-19 testing method using a single-step fluorescent probe assay. This innovative approach will provide faster results than traditional PCR tests while being cost-effective and suitable for point-of-care diagnostics.
Since March 2020, the world is facing the Covid-19 pandemic.
As of September 2020, over 900 000 people have died of the disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The WHO recommendations in order to limit the spread of the virus are to “test, trace and isolate”.
To be successful, this strategy requires fast and massive testing.
Today, tests are performed using PCR, a resource-intensive process requiring extraction of the viral RNA before nucleic acid amplification. PCR tests are slow (several hour…
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