--- description: Find out why OraSure OMNIgene Oral is one of the best inventions of 2020. title: OraSure OMNIgene Oral: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3cf2c76fe18a40ba/698a144316d8845bd7c38d0b/best-inventions-of-2020-OraSure-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 19, 2020 # At-Home Sampling OraSure OMNIgene Oral by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy [OraSure](https://www.orasure.com/ "undefined") is helping make COVID-19 testing—and quick results—more accessible. The company received among the first emergency-use authorizations from the FDA for an at-home COVID-19 sample-­collection kit. Instead of going to a health professional and having a swab thrust up their noses, users spit into the OMNIgene Oral collection tube and send it to a lab, which then turns around the results in a day or two. Such collection kits, which anyone can order online, could vastly expand the reach of COVID-19 testing. _—Alice Park_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911390/orasure-omnigene-oral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911390/orasure-omnigene-oral/"},"headline":"At-Home Sampling","datePublished":"2020-11-19T13:51:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:46:07.457Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911390/orasure-omnigene-oral/","keywords":["list","franchise","best inventions","Best Inventions 2020"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3cf2c76fe18a40ba/698a144316d8845bd7c38d0b/best-inventions-of-2020-OraSure-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3cf2c76fe18a40ba/698a144316d8845bd7c38d0b/best-inventions-of-2020-OraSure-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911390/orasure-omnigene-oral/","name":"At-Home Sampling"}}]}] ```