Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), the research laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed an antibody detection-based kit called ‘DIPCOVAN’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The kit will help people detect if they have previously been exposed to the COVID-19 virus and if their bodies had produced antibodies to combat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DIPCOVAN kit can detect both spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high sensitivity of 97 per cent and specificity of 99 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The kit has been developed in association with Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, a development and manufacturing diagnostics company based at New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DIPCOVAN is intended for the qualitative detection of IgG antibodies in human serum or plasma, targeting SARS-CoV-2 related antigens. It offers a significantly faster turn-around-time as it requires just 75 minutes to conduct the test without any cross reactivity with other diseases. The kit has a shelf life of 18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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