Health & Fitness
Coronavirus Guilford: Local Scientist Working On At-Home Test
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg of Homodeus of Guilford and a team of local scientists are working on fast-tracking a COVID-19 home-test.
GUILFORD, CT — Dr. Jonathan Rothberg of bio-tech company Homodeus in Guilford, has a home-testing coronavirus kit in the works.
Rothberg posted on Twitter that he and his teams have been working "around the clock on a 'at home' COVID-19 test."
He said he's working with the Yale School of Medicine and Penn State on a "simple kit we can make fast, and scale globally."
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Thinking about a low cost easy to manufacture home test kit for #Coronavirus. Outline: #Nasal_swab (Q-tip) w/ freeze dried reagents for isothermal #DNA amplification with #COVID19 primers. Colorimetric readout by #iOS or #Android #App w/ #geolocation & #HIPPA compliant reporting. pic.twitter.com/P4PojWmC8o
— Jonathan Rothberg (@JMRothberg) March 7, 2020
Rothberg, awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama for inventing and commercializing high-speed DNA sequencing, is founder of life science and medical device companies including the company based in Guilford.
Patch has reached out to Rothberg for more information.
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Matt @matthewherper asked my teams to work around the clock on a “at home” #COVID19 test that we can benchmark against the #RTQPCR gold standard ASAP. They will work with @YaleMed and @Penn to validate. Focused on simple kit we can make fast, and scale globally. https://t.co/PVT9GAOTNt
— Jonathan Rothberg (@JMRothberg) March 11, 2020
Rothberg contacted Patch, so please check back for updates.
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