A start up incubated at the Society for Innovation and Development in Indian Institute of Science of Bengaluru has developed a first of its kind, semi-quantitative electrochemical ELISA test for detecting Covid 19 Virus.<br />'' <br />''The start up PathShodh has received the license to manufacture the test device from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation and validated by the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute of Faridabad as per ICMR guidelines.<br />'' <br />''AIR correspondent reports, the technology developed by the start up PathShodh is patented in the US and India. <br />'' <br />''In this device the test results are automatically displayed on the handheld reader that has on-board memory to store more than one lakh real time test results.<br />'' <br />''It has a touch screen display, rechargeable battery, Bluetooth connectivity to smart phone with cloud storage and capabilities to map the patient data to Aadhar number and connect test data to Aarogya Setu app.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The Dean at the Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Professor at Centre for Nano Science and Engineering in IISc says that this new technology will play a very big role in elucidating seroconversion response to Covid 19 vaccine and hence play a supporting role in our Vaccination programme.</span><br />