New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

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Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a small tabletop device that can detect SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample in about an hour.

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Devora Najjar

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