{"id":31183,"date":"2020-06-11T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=31183"},"modified":"2020-10-14T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:10:48","slug":"new-low-cost-novel-coronavirus-test-for-the-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/new-low-cost-novel-coronavirus-test-for-the-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New low-cost novel coronavirus test for the COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) scientists have developed a new low-cost and low-tech required test for the COVID-19 testing. This test is known as Reverse Transcription nested PCR (RT-nPCR) test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended only a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) test for novel coronavirus testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly developed RT-nPCR test does not require real-time quantitative RT-qPCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers reported that the RT-nPCR test has shown comparable performance to the standard RT-qPCR test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nested PCR (RT-nPCR) approach does not depend on RT-qPCR but uses standard RT-PCR as part of an endpoint assay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the trial, the RT-nPCR test was able to identify 90% of the detected samples as positive by RT-qPCR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) scientists have developed a new low-cost and low-tech required test for the COVID-19 testing. This test is known as Reverse Transcription nested PCR (RT-nPCR) test. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended only a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) test for novel coronavirus testing. The newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":31184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1174],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-31183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-june-2020","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31185,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions\/31185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31183"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=31183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}