Tag: RT-PCR
Hamdard Laboratories starts proof of concept clinical trial for its two...
A research team from Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR) is going to start the clinical trial at HAH Centenary Hospital, New Delhi, to evaluate the efficacy of these drugs for the prevention of COVID-19 infection in high-risk subjects...........................
Metropolis’ seventh lab gets COVID testing approval, testing underway in Cochin
The Metropolis lab in Kerala is accredited by NABL for the last 15 years and received the ICMR approval and has been conducting tests since the last week of July at its lab in Cochin.........................
Thermo Fisher introduces new high-throughput testing solution for COVID-19
The high-throughput system enables laboratories to double or even triple their testing capacity to support global efforts to return communities back to work and school......................
Roche Diagnostics India launches country’s first cobas 8800 for SARS COV-2...
Diagnostic testing on high-throughput cobas 8800 in Kolkata and cobas 6800 in Mumbai to significantly increase testing capacity.............
Mylab scales up its COVID-19 test kit production with DBT support
Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions has scaled up its production and development of COVID-19 path detect testing kit with the help of strategic funding under National Biopharma Mission of Department of Biotechnology and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council.......................
IIT Delhi launches low cost COVID-19 test kit
A low-cost COVID-19 test kit developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has been launched.................
JNCASR spinoff launches molecular probes for use in COVID-19 test kits
The company has launched indigenous fluorescence probes and Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mix for Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection which are molecular probes used in COVID-19 test kits.................
Union health ministry bolsters efforts for COVID-19 management in New Delhi
Diagnostic material for 4.7 lakh RT-PCR tests and 50,000 rapid antigen test kits supplied free of cost to Delhi government by ICMR “Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre” at Chhattarpur, a 2000-bedded facility, to be operated by medical and other personnel of Central Armed Police Forces................
Tata Sons partners SCTI to augment production of COVID-19 testing...
The kits will be based on RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Amplification) technology for COVID-19 detection which can produce results in significantly less time thereby increasing the throughput of labs in India.....................
CSIR-IIP to set up viral testing facility to fight COVID-19
The Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) is establishing an RT-PCR-based COVID-19 testing facility in its Dehradun campus..............................