How can this technology impact testing and clinical decisions during the current Coronavirus pandemic?

Currently, it requires one to three hours to complete a single coronavirus test on existing laboratory equipment.  The XCR® COVID-19 test reduces amplification and detection time to approximately 30 minutes, both reducing the time to make those critical quarantine decisions and allowing more test results to be produced on the same instrumentation in the same period.

When our Pyramid testing system becomes commercially available, results will be available in as little as 10 minutes.  The Pyramid is a compact, portable instrument capable of being operated anywhere testing is needed; even using battery power if electricity is limited.  The other advantage this portability creates is eliminating the need to transport samples to a hospital or commercial laboratory.  In the case of mobile sample collection sites, results could be reported to the clinician and/or patient before they arrive home.