Singapore: NTU researchers develop method to tell if a patient has Covid-19 or dengue in just 36 minutes


A team of researchers consisting of (from left) Associate Professor Eric Yap, PhD candidate Wee Soon Keong and senior research fellow Dr Sivalingam Paramalingam Suppiah have demonstrated a way to improve the speed, handling time and cost of Covid-19 laboratory tests. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, July 27 (The Straits Times/ANN): Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine have come up with a way to tell if a person has Covid-19 or dengue in just 36 minutes.

This is just one quarter of the time taken by current testing methods for the same diseases, NTU said on Monday (July 27).

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