Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For the past one and a half years, we have been struggling with COVID19. The deadly pandemic has taken millions of lives all over the world. Meanwhile, the huge demand has deaccelerated the vaccine rollout. The plan to deal with COVID19 includes extensive testing, contact tracing, quarantining, […]
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA To fulfil the shortage of nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Radiology at the University of South Florida (USF) create NP swabs using a point-of-care 3D printer. At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) results of the first trial of 3D-printed NP […]
-Ruchita Karmakar, Amity University Kolkata A research team led by Debojyoti Chakraborty and Souvik Maiti of CSIR and TATA group came up with a new test named FELUDA to detect COVID-19. It’s a paper test strip that gives a precise result within 30 minutes; Approved for commercial launch by the Drugs Controller General of India. […]
