Hyderabad News

  Meril’s Extraction-free Dry Swab Kit can be used to isolate the viral RNA from dry swab samples and then can be directly used for RT-PCR Meril Diagnostics is currently equipped to manufacture two crore kits a month and each kit suffices for 100 tests. Using these kits, a test will cost between Rs 45 and Rs. 60. Hyderabad : The city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular  Biology  (CCMB) on Wednesday announced collaboration with Meril Diagnostics for commercially scaling up the Dry Swab-based tests across diagnostic labs in the country. Meril’s Extraction-free Dry Swab Kit can be used to isolate the viral RNA from dry swab samples and then can be directly used for RT-PCR. Meril Diagnostics is currently equipped to manufacture two crore kits a month and each kit suffices for 100 tests. Using these kits, a test will cost between Rs 45 and Rs. 60. The CCMB researchers have recently developed a simple and fast method of Dry Swab-based Direct RT-PCR. The CCMB technique was a...