Coronavirus

Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – It’s a Revolution: Massive Ramp-Up in Safer Testing

• TAGS: Virus, Vaccine, Proteins, Biology, Culture, Technology

 

In just one week, Profs. Ido Amit and Eran Elinav, both of the Department of Immunology, have built one of the highest-tech labs in the world. They developed a new type of PCR testing that is tremendously fast: if current capabilities test one patient at a time, the new method can test all of Israel simultaneously. The scientists intend to make their method available to anyone who needs it.