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Israel to Test Rapid Coronavirus Detection Technology
(Jerusalem Post) Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - Newsight Imaging has received approval from Israel's Sheba Medical Center to conduct a pilot program for rapid Covid-19 detection tests using its portable and cost-effective spectral device. The device, the size of a computer mouse, can identify and classify evidence of a virus in the body in less than a second, using a sample of fluid - blood serum or saliva. Initial feasibility studies of the device have been successful. "We proved that we can differentiate between people who are sick and those who are not," said Newsight CEO Eli Assoolin. While expensive hyperspectral cameras are widely used in hospitals, Newsight has implemented this technology in a single, cost-effective silicon chip that can be used even in people's homes.