China News Service, May 27. According to Kyodo News, a team from Japan's Institute of Physics and Chemistry and the University of Tokyo published an article in the British scientific journal on the 26th that a high-sensitivity automatic detection device for the new coronavirus has been developed. Results are available within 9 minutes of taking the sample.
According to reports, at present, the shortest mainstream PCR test takes about 1 hour, and the development of rapid detection methods has become a topic.
The new method uses a mechanism for robots to inject test samples such as saliva into the chip, etc. The test process is completely automated, and positive results can be determined within 9 minutes.
The cost of the materials needed for the test is roughly the same as for a PCR test or an antigen test, the report said.
In addition, the device can also determine mutant strains such as Omicron, and is expected to simultaneously detect a variety of viral infectious diseases such as influenza and diagnose cancer.