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NTNU-COVID19-TEST-SUMMARY
TL;DR: NTNU fixed the covid-19 testing bottleneck, which hopefully means we can ramp up testing
Source: https://www.universitetsavisa.no/koronavirus/2020/03/30/NTNU-forskere-har-laget-ny-testmetode-for-koronaviruset-21485950.ece
English Summary:
Researchers at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) have developped a new COVID-19 testing method.
The current bottleneck in testing is in isolating the viruses RNA in the collected samples.
This method use magnetic nano-balls with a coating which attracts RNA to isolate the RNA from samples. This process can be done by hand, but it is apparently also trivial to configure robots which already exist in most diagnostic labs to do that part of the job, much more efficiently.
The collected RNA is then analyzed as normal, using reagents.
*** I'm a layperson in these matters, and may have gotten some of the details wrong ***
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