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Now, you can conduct COVID 19 test with smartphone: Here is how

Monitor News Bureau by Monitor News Bureau
Jan. 31, 2022 Updated 9:36 am. IST - Updated on Mar. 08, 2022 Updated 10:08 am. IST
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Scientists at the University of California have developed a system wherein you can conduct a COVID 19 test using your smartphone.

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Preliminary experiments suggest the result is as accurate an indicator of infection as the PCR test. The research paper published in the journal JAMA Network Open, explains that ‘smartphone-based LAMP assay integrates reliable diagnostics with advantages of smartphone detection, offering an inexpensive diagnostic platform for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A and B viruses that match the CDC RT-qPCR criterion standards.’

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Smartphone-based LAMP assay offers the potential to provide a critical tool to mitigate further stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the LAMP assay can be readily engineered to address novel CoV-2 variants and other pathogens with pandemic potential, including influenza.

The method as ascertained by Cnet requires test-takers to download the app developed by scientists, Bacticount, sit their phone over a hot plate with the rear camera facing down. You place your saliva into a test kit that’s on the hot plate, pour in a reactive solution. The app will then determine the extent of the viral load in the saliva based on the speed of a color reaction.

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