New device to detect HIV infection faster

New Delhi: An Isreali biotech company, Smart Biotech is claiming that their new invention has the potential to save thousands of lives.

Invented by immunologist, Dr Tamar Jehuda- Cohenm, the SMARTube treats a blood sample, stimulating it to produce antigens to HIV, if the blood is infected.


Normally it can take months for a person infected with HIV to produce antigens to the disease, says Dr Jehuda-Cohen. And it is the presence of the antigens that HIV tests check for.


"There is nothing like this in the world. It is a change of the way we ask a question in diagnostics. Instead of asking what there is in the body. We are using the tube in order to tell us what we would be able to see if we waited long enough. But usually we don't have that time to wait,” says Dr Jehuda-Cohen.
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