Los Angeles, Jan 31: US scientists have developed a rapid and sensitive diagnostic system, consisting of a smartphone app and a testing kit, to detect SARS-CoV-2, its variants and the flu virus. Developed by researchers at the University of California (UC)Santa Barbara, US, the system can provide a platform for inexpensive home-based testing. It can be readily adapted for other pathogens with pandemic potential including deadly variants of SARS-CoV-2 and flu, they said. The system, described in the journal JAMA […]