Interestingly, Singapore’s very first lab equipped with PCR technologies was set up at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2000, well before the pandemic. Being the first in the region meant that many people were perplexed over what PCR tests could do. “Everybody was like, ‘this bunch of people are doing something called PCR. Anybody knows what it is?’,” Zhou Lihan, co-founder and CEO of biotech company MiRXES, recalled in a recent interview with The Edge Singapore.
Founders of biotech company MiRXES were working on the PCR technology well before Covid-19 struck
Apart from the terms ART, MCO, PPE and WFH plus many others, the Covid-19 pandemic has acquainted the world with the acronym of another medical term: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. PCR tests are typically administered to detect genetic material from specific organisms, such as the Sars-Cov 2 virus.
