Biohackers at BioFoundry in Australia are making their own experimental
COVID-19 test kits, which purport to diagnose the disease in just 30
minutes, and which patients can potentially perform themselves.
The open-source (OS) community proposes ditching the expensive capital
equipment in favor of a reaction that requires only a
set of biological and
chemical reagents in a single tube that gives a reliable diagnosis. We are
currently sourcing the reagents to replicate the experiments being shared
within the community. BioFoundry proposes setting up the facilities to
synthesize the required biological reagents at scale, while collaborating
with our sister company Argent Scientific to source the required chemicals.
We would then focus on producing self-diagnosis kits to fill the diagnostic
gap in Australia, before moving our focus to Africa and South-East Asia to
help support their containment efforts as well.
https://foundry.bio/coronavirus-covid-19/