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Colorado researchers develop COVID-19 test that requires no swab and can produce results in 45 minutes
BOULDER, Colo. - Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder, have developed a new rapid, portable, saliva-based COVID-19 test that they say is able to render results in 45 minutes, requiring no swabs.Scientists who developed the test believe it may be successfully utilized in community environments such as schools and factories, streamlining the coronavirus testing process that has seen many snags in the midst of concerning surges of the illness all over the U.S.“We are facing a serious testing shortage in this country right now as more people want to get tested and diagnostics labs are overwhelmed,” said Nicholas Meyerson, a postdoctoral associate in the Sawyer Lab at the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder.