For the first time in the world, Gona Kamal has conducted biomedical research that will significantly facilitate the testing and diagnosis of coronavirus, the Pandemic that changed the world forever. 

"We invented something which was a way to find the Covid19 biomarkers to easier detect the disease and avoid complex and uncomfortable diagnosis," Gona Kamal told KurdSat English. Several peer-reviewed international scientific journals have confirmed Kamal's discoveries. Gona Kamal holds a master's degree in biomedical research and is a researcher at the University of Sulaimani in the Kurdistan region.  

Her work has been published in three international scientific journals and is considered a scientific revolution in bioanalysis. "She is also working on two other papers to explain the significance of her work, that would be published soon," nanoscience professor and Gona's research supervisor Khalid Mohammed told KurdSat English. 

"We were able to work on a single atom in our research," she told KurdSat. During the coronavirus outbreak in 2019, Science tried identifying and treating this disease. "We were fortunate to come across the finding," Kamal said. 

Professor Khalid Mohammed, an expert in biomedical analysis and nanoscience and the supervisor of the study, told KurdSat English, "currently, these techniques, especially in the field of bioanalysis, are designed to allow you to diagnose your disease at home, just as diabetes can now be tested with a drop of blood." He also noted, "Science is going in two directions here, both in the direction of miniaturization and in the direction of low cost and low material use."

"We have used DNA and RNA to detect biomarkers, because finding a biomarker with DNA and rNA is more accurate and cheaper to acquire," Kamal explained. It can also help find an antibody for the Covid19 sooner and more easily. 

The finding is more ecologically-friendly as it would circumvent testing on animals. "Medical companies need a host cell, a rat to test their findings, but our finding would not need a host cell, the aptamer [they found] would create a DNA through multiple reactions that bind some bonds together," Kamal said of her research. 

Gona Kamal spoke of why she focused on finding an alternative to antibodies, "I work in the health sector, we rely on antibodies in medical tests for their results, we thought of finding an alternative to antibodies to work on to identify diseases, because antibodies are expensive and take about six months to produce, fortunately for the first time we were able to bring this research to Iraq to work with DNA and RNA instead of antibodies, as they are cheaper to produce and take less than two days." The finding would revolutionize testing and help billions of people that do not have access to regular medical testing. 

"This saves us a lot of time, costs less and is more accurate in detection," Kamal and her supervisor said. "Foreign and domestic medical corporations now work on mass producing the findings, according to the researchers. 

Our invention will be published worldwide with our names on it, and we own its patent; Kamal praised her discovery. The finding would be revolutionary if mass-produced and funded by government and scientific organizations.