Rapid, label-free and low-cost diagnostic kit for COVID-19 based on liquid crystals and machine learning

We report a label-free method for detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in nasopharyngeal swab samples without purification steps and multiplication of the target which simplifies and expedites the analysis process. The kit consists of a textile grid on which liquid crystals (LC) are deposited and the g...

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Main Authors: Mahboube Esmailpour, Mohammad Mohammadimasoudi, Mohammadreza G. Shemirani, Ali Goudarzi, Mohammad-Hossein Heidari Beni, Hosein Shahsavarani, Hamid Aghajan, Parvaneh Mehrbod, Mostafa Salehi-Vaziri, Fatemeh Fotouhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590137022001261