Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi has said that it was starting research to develop a home-based Covid-19 testing kit that will identify if there are antibodies in the blood sample.
The institute said that it has signed an MoU with Wells Fargo, which would financially support its initiative to develop a home-based Covid-19 testing kit.
Recently, in a breakthrough research, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) and University of Nairobi researchers have used metamaterials to improve detection of defects in large structures by guided wave ultrasound.
The results of this collaborative work have been recently published in the international reputed peer-reviewed journal AIP Advances.
The paper has been co-authored by Prof Prabhu Rajagopal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-M and his collaborators at the University of Nairobi–Dr Michael Gatari and Mr John Birir, a PhD student they jointly guide as part of a ‘Joint Degree Programme.