A research team from UM’s Institute of Microelectronics proposed a novel DNA amplification enhancer to significantly improve the performance of DNA amplification methods in both benchtop assays and on-chip assays in microfluidic devices. This enhancer would allow users to observe, with the naked eye, the results of nucleic acid amplification tests for different kinds of viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, thereby facilitating fast, portable virus testing for large populations. The study has been published in the well-known international journal Lab on a Chip. The article was selected as featured paper to appear in the back cover of the journal.
