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ASU Team Wins $6M in Government Funding to Develop Rapid Saliva Testing System for Coronavirus

Sep 25, 2020
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NEW YORK — Arizona State University said on Thursday that it has been awarded $6 million in government funding to develop a rapid, point-of-need saliva testing system for SARS-CoV-2.

The test is based on a technology, developed by ASU's Alex Green and collaborators and previously demonstrated with Zika virus, that combines isothermal RNA amplification with toehold switch sensors to detect target viral RNA sequences.

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