According to the study, COVID Pandemic is very forcing for most student researchers, as most university students work remotely. This kind of story has sounded like a warning about the lab supplies of dearth that were hampered by COVID tests in the United States.
Researchers say that from politico articles, Due Juang had forced and experienced a lot of stuff related to the efficient working for diagnostic technologies in the researcher’s lab. Duane mailed his mentor about the research and asked for a solution for the problem to solve it.
Covid Test Gives Hope For Future Pandemics During Present Serving Needs
In the initial phase of virus spread, there was no specific testing method that could give quick results, but the experts have come up with new methods that can lead to better and quicker results.
Based on the survey, after 18 months, Juang has completed his graduation and started working towards the commercialization for a simpler, less expensive, and faster alternative for using the PCR tests according to the gold standards in order to detect the SARS-CoV-2.
The test which Duane wanted to do can be easily adaptable to other infectious diseases, and it is completely based on the innovative combinations of the technology with the other students named Beebe, Terry Juang, and some other collaborators who had outlined the case study.
Researchers say that based on the given complexities and the costs, the PCR is purely based on the tests which require the processor in a centralized lab among large batches. Generally, patients should wait for 24 hours to get their health results, but in contrast, the OIL-TAS team launched their project with some simpler and understanding steps which allow the results to be produced in an hour while it is required to get the minimal equipment and large output.
On this note, the PCR-based tests that the OIL-TAS team used are now possible by the RNA extraction and layer detected by using the nucleic acids and chemical reactions from the virus, which is moreover based on the antigen tests that can detect the surface protein with the less sensitive virus.
Employees for OIL-TAS had conducted rapid extraction methods which had pioneered with Beebe in the lab, and their study has eliminated the requirement for washing the samples to rely on less complexity over chemical assay, which encloses the risk that is decreased by the contamination risk.
Researchers said that they had filed several patents which are related to the technologies, and by the findings of the research foundation, quicker detection techniques are used, which doesn’t need the lengthy thermocycling by including the microfluidic technology, which is known as exclusive liquid repellency.
On this note, exclusive liquid repellency is created by the Beebe and the lab scientists named Chao Li; results found that the drug prevents the safeguarding of small, precious volumes and sample loss.
When Duane Juang is conceding the detection methods, OIL-TAS is very sensitive compared to the PCR but based on the group’s yielded test, there is a 93 percent of the agreement by the positive results with 100 percent agreement while compared to the negative ones in the analysis of PCR when they are analyzed with SARS-CoV-2 clinical sample.
Beebe and Juang stated that “we first detect the respiratory diseases such as flu and other viruses for the sake of future pandemic diseases” so that a basic nucleic acid-based test is conducted, which can be easily adaptable by different infectious diseases.
On a final note, the study says that Beebe’s lab is applied by underlying technology for analyzing the epigenetic alterations for exploring the fungal biology and prostate cancer by a pair of grants.
