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Rapid Diagnostic Systems Announces CE Mark Approval for NaorCov-19 Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of COVID-19 March 25, 2021 Rapid Diagnostic Systems Limited (RDS), www.narodia.com announced today that the company’s NaorCov-19, which is enabling for the first time rapid and scalable saliva based COVID-19 molecular diagnosis, had received the CE-European Conformity Mark approval. The CE marking confirms … NAOR Covid-19 Test to obtain CE Mark (March, 2021) Read More »

פיתוח חדש: בדיקות קורונה מהירות בטכניון (ynet, January 2021, in Hebrew) מבצע הבדיקות הנרחב בטכניון יחל השבוע ויסייע בהגנה על בריאותם של דיירי המעונות ובתום הסגר על כלל באי הקמפוס. הבדיקות מוצעות לסטודנטים, לעובדים ולחברי הסגל ללא עלות, ובכוונת הנהלת הטכניון לעודד את באי הקמפוס להיבדק בכל שבוע וכך לקטוע את שרשרות ההדבקה. בעקבות העלייה … Rapid Testing at the Technion (Ynet, January 2021) Read More »

Technion invents rapid, simple COVID-19 test for work and home (Jerusalem Post, January 2021) A new COVID-19 test developed by the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, which offers multiple results in under one hour, will be included in a novel four-layer approach meant to ensure that the Haifa-based institute of higher learning will be as safe … Technion invents rapid, simple COVID-19 test for work and home (Jerusalem Post , Israel

Naor Campus Surveillance and Testing at the Technion featured on i24 News (February, 2021) The Technion campus testing is covered in this special review.

JERUSALEM, Israel – The coronavirus pandemic and the need for widespread testing has sparked new efforts for companies to develop at-home testing kits for the public. An Israeli research team from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is creating an at-home testing kit that they claim can quickly diagnose the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus strain that … Israeli Team Developing At-Home Coronavirus Test With Results in Less Than an Hour (By

The mission will give Israel access to a large population in which to test four promising approaches to rapid diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Israeli researchers are developing faster, more accurate ways to test people for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. But due to Israel’s small population, clinical trials to validate efficacy take a lot of time. … … Israeli Ministry of Defence Test Promising New Covid-19 diagnostics in India (By Abigail Klein

‘The most significant innovation is that the test can be carried out on site, within an hour, eliminating the need to send the saliva to a special lab. The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at Technion Institute of Technology is developing a home test that can rapidly detect the novel coronavirus in less … Technion developing rapid coronavirus test with results within an hour (By Jerusalem Post Staff,

Technion researchers say that under certain conditions, the kit has achieved a 99 percent success rate of identifying the coronavirus and delivers results in under an hour Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology are developing a kit for home testing for the coronavirus, a process they say is simple, quick and cheap … Israeli Researchers Developing Home Test Kit for Coronavirus (by Asaf Ronel, Haaretz, April 19,

An article published in Experimental Biology and Medicine describes a technique for “Direct On-the-Spot Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Patients”. The study, led by Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky and colleagues from the Technion–Institute of Technology in Haifa, and the Rambam Hospital, Meir Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University, as well as researchers from Boston, reports a rapid, simple and cost-effective colorimetric method based on … Direct On-the-Spot Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Patients (Experimental Biology and Medicine, August 2020) Read

From point-of-care kits to mass sampling and breath analysis, Israelis are inventing faster, more accurate tests that could finally let us get to grips with corona. The Covid-19 coronavirus is speeding past all the stop signs that countries have put in its way. How can we put the brakes on the pandemic? One solution is … Ways Israeli scientists are improving corona testing (By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c, July 27,