In India 20% of population suffer from Vitamin-B-12 deficiency according to a report in Metropolis Healthcare Study. Vitamin B-12- is considered as energy vitamin and in India a country that is predominantly Vegetarian in diet is vulnerable to B-12 deficiency as fish, meat and egg are primary sources of Vitamin-B12. Basically B-12 deficiency is caused due to lifestyle, diet and social cultural factors. Diagnosis in clinical laboratories take anywhere between 500 Rupees to 1000 Rupees. Sometimes these laboratory estimations are notoriously unreliable. A portable novel Vitamin B-12 kit is a product developed by Indian Startup called Magnimous that focuses on biosensors development. These Disposable Vitamin B-12 detection kits are affordable and are available in price of Rs.150-200.
Rapid developments in the field of molecular biology has helped in rapid and drastic changes in Biosensors development. Key advantages envisioned are:
- Thermally Stable sensors development
- More rugged sensors
- Easy to rapidly produce these sensors
- Cheaper, Efficient and Cost effective sensors
- This Novel kit is a point of care device that can detect deficiency of vitamin B-12 on the spot and can give report instantly
- It is a disposable unit similar to pregnancy tester
- It costs around Rs.150-200
- The product is in incubation and will be released to market in March 2019
Readers can know more about the startup magnimous and its products at following link: http://www.magnimous.com
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