Coronavirus: University Of Arizona Making Test Kits

TUCSON, AZ — Scientists at the University of Arizona are working to make thousands of coronavirus test kits amid a growing need for them, according to a news release from the university. In total, they've got the materials to create 7,000 test kits.

"Fortunately, our personnel at the Biorepository have several decades of experience in creating biospecimen collection kits for use in FDA-approved analyses and clinical applications," said David Harris, director of the Health Sciences Biorepository, in the release.

Testing kits have two main elements, Harris said: the swab and the vessel that holds the sample. A lack of testing kits has created a bottleneck in testing, and the biorepository's efforts are meant to help widen that.

See the University of Arizona news release.

"Quite frankly, we're not trying to develop anything novel or even particularly advanced," said Ryan Sprissler, manager of the University of Arizona Genomics Core. "We're trying to meet a critical need, which, right now, means making collection tests more readily available."

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