Iranian Knowledge-Based Company Produces Viral Extraction Kit

According to a report by the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, Mohammad Bagher Mahmoudi, a member of the board of directors of this Iranian knowledge-based company explained about the features of the virus extraction kit and said, “In this method, dangerous substances such as phenol and chloroform are not used, and the RNA virus is attached to the silica column, while the contaminants pass through it.”

“Corona virus acute respiratory syndrome is a single-stranded RNA virus that is the cause of the disease of COVID-19, and the same method is used in the diagnosis of Covid-19. In this virus extraction kit, first the cellular and protective structures of viruses are lysed, and then the genome is extracted and is separated through silica column method,” the researcher also said.

Mahmoudi further said that the lysing buffer of this kit is specially optimized to destroy the protective structures of the virus. “The Iranian-made kit has the same efficiency as the foreign imported models, while it is available at a much cheaper price,”

According to the researcher, “About 40 jobs have been created as a result of the production of virus extraction kit.”

“Despite the challenges ahead, a virus extraction kit has been exported to Afghanistan, and the country has saved about 10 million dollars by meeting the domestic needs for the virus extraction kit,” the director of the knowledge-based firm said.

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