Researchers from the University of Southampton are exploring whether a point of care diagnostic testing approach they have developed could be used for the rapid, inexpensive testing of COVID19.
Staff at the University’s Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics (ZIPN) have previously developed laser patterned rapid testing kits, similar to the commonly available pregnancy test, to provide an affordable pathway to diagnose different disease-related biomarkers within a timeframe of 10 – 15 minutes.