Chris Toumazou FRS, Imperial College London’s Regius Professor of Engineering, has been working alongside clinical researchers to deliver the test, which is based on his DnaNudge consumer DNA testing innovation, and which if widely adopted would dramatically cut the time it would take to establish whether or not somebody had the illness. He said: “Early validation results for our technology in the COVID-19 patient study have been excellent. "The DnaNudge test was developed as a lab-free, on-the-spot consumer service that can be delivered at scale, so we clearly believe it offers very significant potential in terms of mass population testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.”