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Alex Pearlman and Christi Guerrini in Leaps Magazine

Read an opinion piece in Leaps magazine about a group of independent scientists working on the Just One Giant Lab platform who created a simple, one-hour Covid test that anyone could take at home with just a cup of hot water. Without ethical and regulatory approval for clinical testing, manufacture, and distribution, they were legally unable to create field tests for real people, leaving their inexpensive, $16-per-test, innovative product languishing behind, while other, more expensive over-the-counter tests made their way onto the market.

Read more at Leaps.org: Biohackers Made a Cheap and Effective Home Covid Test -- But No One Is Allowed to Use It