TOKYO -- Japanese biotech company Takara Bio said Thursday it has developed a new reagent which allows coronavirus infections to be determined in about an hour, slashing the required testing time by more than half from existing methods.
Asia’s largest research reagent company supplies enough to test 2 million per month

Takara Bio has developed a new reagent which allows coronavirus infections to be determined in about an hour. © Takara Bio
TOKYO -- Japanese biotech company Takara Bio said Thursday it has developed a new reagent which allows coronavirus infections to be determined in about an hour, slashing the required testing time by more than half from existing methods.