Sponsored by the NIH RADx initiative, OnsiteGene has developed “PeakV”, a next-gen PCR instrument. PeakV enables ultra-fast thermal cycling (40 cycles in 5 minutes), fully automated nested PCR, and magnetic beads based nucleic acid extraction. The low cost, contamination free Open-Assay Cartridge of PeakV has a universal assay capability, allowing third party assay developers to make their own sample-to-answer cartridge-based PCR nucleic acid tests free from any instrument design restrictions.