Scientists in Manchester are working to develop a home testing kit for Covid-19 that could be used like a pregnancy test. Biotech researchers at the University of Manchester are creating a prototype test that could be used in the fight to detect infectious agents like coronavirus.

The new screening approach would help to identify the Covid-19 virus, not by its genetic code which can mutate, but by using its reliance on chains of sugars on human cells, which are constant.

Sugars coat all cells in the human body and they are the first layer a bacteria or virus encounters. The team in Manchester are interested in how to use the sugars to identify and even block a virus from penetrating the cell, thus preventing further infection.

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