Innovation: a Normandy start-up deploys its Covid screening kit in 30 minutes!

More than five days, sometimes a week. The waiting times for obtaining results after a Covid screening are sometimes extremely long in cities whose laboratories are overloaded. With the rebound of the epidemic,  Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday, October 28 the establishment of a new  national containment. During his speech, the Head of State assured that France was one of the countries which practiced the most tests. And he recalled his desire to continue this reinforced screening strategy, referring to certain “rapid” tests. These saliva and antigen tests make it possible to relieve the laboratories, however, nothing replaces “a diagnosis established from an RT-PCR test making it possible to determine the presence of the genome of SARS-CoV-2”, warns Health Insurance .


 To meet the exponential demand, a Norman start-up called Loop Dee Science has been working on the issue for several months now. While studying coronaviruses in dogs and cats, biologists had a hunch as early as February. "We stopped research on the veterinary part and doubled down on the human part", recalls for ELLE, Stefan Gallard, co-founder. As an echo of their reflection at the launch of the company, in 2017, which today appears rather visionary. "The first observation was that we lived in a world that needed quick answers without compromising reliability, so the challenge in creating our start-up was to be able to produce extremely reliable analyzes that could be carried out outside the laboratory,

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