18 January, 2024
Several KAUST teams worked together on the project under the umbrella of the KAUST Smart Health Initiative. Mo Li and Gerardo Ramos-Mandujano developed magnetic beads for extracting viral RNA. Grünberg and colleagues repurposed an existing liquid-handling robot to automate RNA extraction. Samir Hamdan’s lab purified and tested the enzymes required to detect and quantify the viral RNA.