(Times of Israel) Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa are developing a home kit to enable people to be quickly and inexpensively tested for the coronavirus. Ha'aretz reported that the kit would only need two test tubes and a container with hot water. The team is claiming a 99% accuracy rate and says that the test yields results in less than an hour. Microbiologist Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky, the lead researcher for the project, explained that the kit is based on existing materials produced by an American company that have been shown to be efficient at identifying the genetic material of the virus. The Technion innovation is in developing a protocol that enables adaptation for home testing.
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