Jonathan Rothberg, a DNA-sequencing pioneer who founded diagnostic testing company Detect in 2017, has invented a revolutionary, at-home Covid testing device that gives users results for $39 within an hour
A genius tech scientist who once won the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama has invented a revolutionary, one-hour, at-home Covid testing device that gives users results with superior accuracy for $39 – from the comfort of a lab on his $35 million yacht.
Jonathan Rothberg, a DNA-sequencing pioneer who founded diagnostic testing company Detect in 2017, was barely one month into the pandemic when he decided to utilize his company’s tech to confront the then-looming coronavirus outbreak, riding out the pandemic in his superyacht The Gene Machine.
In March 2020, the Connecticut-based scientist converted a lab he had curated on the lavish boat dedicated to environmental studies to a one intended to tackle the rapidly spreading contagion, by creating a more accurate, efficient, and cost-means of testing for the virus from home.
