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Researchers in South Korea have developed a plasmonic
isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) array chip.
This first plasmoinc isothermal PCR technology can detect eight
types of pathogens (four bacteria and four viruses) that cause
acute respiratory infectious diseases; the analysis takes only 30
minutes. The research was led by Dr. Sung-Gyu Park and Dr. Ho Sang
Jung of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS, President
Jung-Hwan Lee) and by Dr. Min-Young Lee and Dr. Ayoung Woo of
Samsung Medical Center.