{"id":167442,"date":"2022-02-09T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=167442"},"modified":"2022-02-09T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:20:14","slug":"scientists-develop-new-technology-platform-to-detect-sars-cov-2-by-fluorescence-readout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-new-technology-platform-to-detect-sars-cov-2-by-fluorescence-readout\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new technology platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 by fluorescence readout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of Indian scientists have developed a new technology platform <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for fluorometric detection of pathogens such as viruses by measurement of fluorescent light emitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viruses are a major global threat to human health, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 continues to inflict catastrophic effects on all aspects of our lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This unprecedented transmission rate of RNA virus has necessitated rapid and accurate diagnosis to facilitate contact tracing (prevent spreading) and to provide timely treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RT-q-PCR (Quantitative reverse transcription PCR) test has been the gold standard for accurate detection of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). However, this test is not very reliable and takes a longer time to give results.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have Indian Scientists developed now?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-167443 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/89442390.jpg.jpg?resize=338%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/89442390.jpg.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/89442390.jpg.jpg?resize=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Scientists have developed Noncanonical nucleic acid-based G-quadruplex (GQ) topology targeted-reliable conformational polymorphism (GQ-RCP) platform to diagnose Covid-19 clinical samples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This platform detects viruses by measuring the fluorescent light that is emitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This platform can also be used to detect other DNA\/RNA pathogens such as HIV, influenza, HCV, Zika, Ebola, bacteria, and other mutating pathogens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article <b>\u201cScientists develop new technology platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 by fluorescence readout\u201d <\/b>published in<b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 9th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A team of Indian scientists have developed a new technology platform for fluorometric detection of pathogens such as viruses by measurement of fluorescent light emitted. Background Viruses are a major global threat to human health, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 continues to inflict catastrophic effects on all aspects&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-new-technology-platform-to-detect-sars-cov-2-by-fluorescence-readout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists develop new technology platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 by fluorescence readout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-167442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704941970},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}