(Times of Israel) Nathan Jeffay - Izhak Haviv, chief scientist of AID Genomics, said his company has changed the enzymes and other components normally used in coronavirus test kits in order to enable small batches of "VIP" tests to be processed in 30 minutes, and bigger batches in around double the time. "To process a planeload of passengers would take me 75 minutes, and I can push it down to an hour," he said. "We have an actual tool that is 50 times more sensitive than tests kits produced until now." "I hope as a result of this technology, activities involving many participants will be open and not need to close. Movie sets, for example, aren't filming, but if everyone can get tested in the morning, they can know within half an hour if everyone is clean, and start filming."
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