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SINGAPORE: Scientists have developed a H5N1 bird flu test kit that can now rapidly detect all existing strains of the H5N1 viruses in a single test with almost 100 per cent accuracy, within a few hours.
The scientists are from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre under the Agency for Science and Technology Research and clinicians from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
A joint statement by the various parties including A*STAR said the kit was co-developed by Dr Masafumi Inoue, a senior research scientist and project director of Technology Development from ETC and Dr Timothy Barkham, a senior consultant of Laboratory Medicine from TTSH.
This newly launched H5N1 test kit has been clinically validated by several hospitals in Southeast Asia.
Local small and medium enterprise, AITbiotech, a regional provider of genomic services and molecular diagnostics kits, has recently signed a licence agreement with Exploit Technologies, the technology transfer arm of A*STAR, to market this H5N1 kit regionally.
The scientists are from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre under the Agency for Science and Technology Research and clinicians from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
A joint statement by the various parties including A*STAR said the kit was co-developed by Dr Masafumi Inoue, a senior research scientist and project director of Technology Development from ETC and Dr Timothy Barkham, a senior consultant of Laboratory Medicine from TTSH.
This newly launched H5N1 test kit has been clinically validated by several hospitals in Southeast Asia.
Local small and medium enterprise, AITbiotech, a regional provider of genomic services and molecular diagnostics kits, has recently signed a licence agreement with Exploit Technologies, the technology transfer arm of A*STAR, to market this H5N1 kit regionally.
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