[NEWS] Feluda, first desi Covid detector, gets regulator nod

Although this method has been tested by scientists in other countries including Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it is the first such indigenous test kit to be developed in India based on CRISPR technology. India’s first COVID-19 detecting paper strip ‘Feluda’ delivers results within minutes! One of the most pertinent questions going on in everyone’s head is if they are infected with Coronavirus but have no symptoms? In a matter of minutes, courtesy writer and film-maker Satyajit Ray’s popular fictional detective, ‘Feluda,’ could now clear all your doubts. The ‘Feluda’ is a paper-based test strip that detects the latest coronavirus in an hour, and can now be the solution to the urgent need for rapid testing in India, a LiveMint report indicates.

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A team led by two scientists of Bengali descent, Dr. Souvik Maiti and Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty, at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) of the Council of Science & Industrial Research in New Delhi, have come up with a simple strip-test to tell you if you have COVID-19 in minutes, a New18 report has stated. The study uses the state-of-the-art gene-editing tool-Crispr-Cas9 to target and identify genomic sequences of the novel coronavirus in suspected individual samples.

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