IP Group's Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 'advanced development' of Covid-19 test

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Intellectual property investor IP Group said its portfolio company Oxford Nanopore Technologies had announced that it was in advanced development of an end-to-end test for the detection of the Covid-19 virus.

The LamPORE an end-to-end test (assay), based on Oxford Nanopore's DNA/RNA sequencing technology,was designed to cater to on-demand analysis of smaller sample numbers, to very large numbers of samples. LamPORE is

IP Group held an a stake of 16.4% in Oxford Nanopore.

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