Toyobo develops test kit to detect coronavirus within 1 hour

Japanese fiber and biotechnology firm Toyobo Co. said Monday it has developed a test kit capable of detecting the new pneumonia-causing coronavirus within 60 minutes.The company's "SARS-CoV-2 Detection Kit" successfully reduced the time it takes to extract the specific genetic material of the virus and multiply it for detection, it said.Current polymerase chain reaction tests usually take about 30 minutes to 2 hours to extract the genetic material and then an additional 2 hours to multiply and detect it."We would like to contribute to curbing the new pneumonia-causing infection by supportin…READ FULL ARTICLE