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Image: Transmission electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Photo courtesy of NIAID)

New CRISPR-Based Test Diagnoses COVID-19 Infection in Less than an Hour

Scientists at UC San Francisco (San Francisco, CA, USA) and Mammoth Biosciences (San Francisco, CA, USA) have jointly developed an inexpensive new test that can rapidly diagnose COVID-19 infections. More...
20 Apr 2020
Image: Rutgers Professor Andrew Brooks, chief operating officer and director of technology development at RUCDR Infinite Biologics (Photo courtesy of Rutgers University)

Rutgers Secures US FDA Emergency Use Authorization for New Coronavirus Saliva Test

A new collection approach that utilizes saliva as the primary test biomaterial for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has become the first such method to be granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). More...
20 Apr 2020
Image: Illustration of a 2019- novel coronavirus (nCoV) virion (Photo courtesy of CDC)

COVID-19: 155 Drugs and 79 Vaccines Currently Under Development Worldwide

A total of 155 drugs and 79 vaccines are currently being developed worldwide to combat COVID-19, according to a study released by the Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA; Vienna, Austria), based on figures compiled in collaboration with the organization's European counterparts. More...
20 Apr 2020
Image: Lauco crystal violet (LCV) colorimetric detection results of limit of detection (LoD) tests for the primer sets used for SARS-CoV-2 detection. 20U/reaction of reverse transcriptase were used (Photo courtesy of Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology).

RT-LAMP Assay Developed for SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 is the causative viral pathogen of COVID-19, and diagnosis of COVID-19 can be done through CT scan of suspicious patients and a confirmatory laboratory test is performed using published real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) methods. More...
20 Apr 2020
Image: Sense’s Veros SARS-CoV-2 (Photo courtesy of Sense Biodetection Limited)

Sense Accelerates World’s First Instrument-Free, POC Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Sense Biodetection Limited (Oxford, UK) has accelerated its program to launch the world’s first instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. More...
18 Apr 2020
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Asuragen Develops Armored RNA Quant® SARS-CoV-2 Control

Asuragen, Inc. (Austin, TX, USA) has developed an Armored RNA Quant® SARS-CoV-2 Control for use in developing assays in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More...
18 Apr 2020
Image: The Hememics device (Photo courtesy of Hememics Biotechnologies Inc.)

Rapid, Bluetooth-Connected Test Diagnoses COVID-19 in 60 Seconds

Hememics Biotechnologies Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) is partnering with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority {(BARDA) Washington, DC, USA}, a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on the development of a rapid, Bluetooth®-connected, easy-to-use test to diagnose COVID-19 in 60 seconds or less. More...
18 Apr 2020
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