{"id":85554,"date":"2020-05-15T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15455"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:26:07","slug":"more-time-needed-for-rolling-out-virus-diagnostic-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-time-needed-for-rolling-out-virus-diagnostic-test\/","title":{"rendered":"More time needed for rolling out virus diagnostic test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Chitra GeneLAMP-N testing kit for coronavirus may be delayed for several more weeks as it needs more confirmatory testing as well as changes in its configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chitra GeneLAMP-N testing kit has been developed by Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology,Trivandrum.<\/li><li>The test detects two regions of the N gene of SARS- COV2 using RT-Loop mediated isothermal amplification(RT-LAMP) method which will ensure that the test does not fail even if one region of the viral gene undergoes mutation during its current spread.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reverse Transcription-based Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a technique for the amplification of RNA.It is used in the detection of viruses.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In this method, a DNA copy of the viral RNA is generated by reverse transcriptase and then isothermal amplification is carried out to increase the amount of total DNA.<\/li><li><strong>Reverse transcriptase(RT):<\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA (DNA) from an RNA template,a process termed reverse transcription.<\/li><li><strong>Isothermal amplification<\/strong>: It enables rapid and specific amplification of DNA at constant temperature (60-65 \u00b0C).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Chitra GeneLAMP-N testing kit for coronavirus may be delayed for several more weeks as it needs more confirmatory testing as well as changes in its configuration. Facts: Chitra GeneLAMP-N testing kit has been developed by Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology,Trivandrum. The test detects two regions of the N gene&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-time-needed-for-rolling-out-virus-diagnostic-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More time needed for rolling out virus diagnostic test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2925],"class_list":["post-85554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-chitra-genelamp-n-testing-kit","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704775242},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}