bioLytical develops 60-second Ebola testing kit

31-Oct-2014 - Canada

bioLytical Laboratories has successfully developed a pre-clinical prototype diagnostic test for the rapid detection of antibodies to the Ebola Zaire strain responsible for the current outbreak in West Africa. The prototype is based upon the Company's proven, accurate, and highly accepted INSTI rapid test platform, which is capable of providing results in as little as 60 seconds.

"We are very excited about what our research and development team has been able to accomplish in such a short period of time," says bioLytical's Chief Executive Officer Dr. Christopher Shackleton. "There is clearly a pressing need for a diagnostic test that can rapidly and accurately detect the presence of this potentially deadly infection as early as possible and in diverse testing environments. We also believe that the speed of our INSTI platform will offer considerable advantages as compared to slower point-of-care assays when it comes to the screening of large numbers of subjects in the field as well as in those settings where time is a significant constraint such as travel points of entry."

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