DiaCarta Receives CE/IVD for its New COVID 19 test that Identifies Delta Plus and New Variants
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum DiaCarta Inc., a precision molecular diagnostics company and leading developer of novel oncology tests using liquid biopsy, announced that its new QuantiVirus™ SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection Test received the CE/IVD marking and therefore, can now be commercialized within the EU and rest of the world. This new test screens for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and simultaneously identifies and differentiates all the new mutating COVID-19 variants including the Alpha (UK), Beta (S. Africa), Gamma (Brazil), Delta (India), Delta Plus (India), Epsilon (California) and the Kappa (India) variants.
This new multiplex qPCR-based test can be run on commonly available qPCR cyclers, thereby, bypassing the need to perform expensive and time-consuming Next-generation sequencing (NGS). The test demonstrates enhanced sensitivity and specificity and is powered by DiaCarta’s proprietary XNA based Molecular Clamping Technology. This technology uses innovative synthetic Xenonucleic acid molecular oligomers (XNA) that hybridize with target DNA sequences and can be employed as molecular clamps in quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions (qPCR). The XNA tightly bound to the wild-type sequences specifically enables only the mutant sequences to be accurately amplified.
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