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Next-Generation PCR-Based COVID-19 Test Can Distinguish SARS-CoV-2 Strains and Quantify Viral Load

A new PCR-based COVID-19 assay kit that uses proprietary switch-blocker technology could provide answers which support screening and managing patients. More...
03 Mar 2021
Image: Coronavirus-like nanoparticles, made from plant viruses and bacteriophage, could serve as positive controls for the RT-LAMP test (Photo courtesy of Soo Khim Chan)

Coronavirus-Like Nanoparticles Could Ensure Reliability of Simpler, Faster COVID-19 Tests

Nanoparticles that pass detection as the novel coronavirus could offer an easy, foolproof way to know that rapid COVID-19 tests work correctly and their results can be trusted. More...
03 Mar 2021
Image: Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell infected with SARS-COV-2 (Photo courtesy of NIAID)

Use of Statins to Lower Cholesterol Increases Survival by 50% in Severe COVID-19 Patients, Finds New Study

People who took statins to lower cholesterol were approximately 50% less likely to die if hospitalized for COVID-19, according to a new study. More...
02 Mar 2021
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New Cloning Technique Can Accurately Assess Transmissibility of Future SARS-CoV-2 Mutants

Using the latest sequencing technology and PCR techniques, an international team of researchers has developed an approach that can accurately assess the transmissibility of new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. More...
01 Mar 2021
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Novel Calculators Identify Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients at Greatest Risk of Requiring Mechanical Ventilation or of In-Hospital Death

Two novel calculators for predicting which patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are at greatest risk of requiring mechanical ventilation or of in-hospital death have been developed and validated by researchers. More...
01 Mar 2021
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Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes First Single-Shot Vaccine to Receive FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Johnson & Johnson’s (New Brunswick, NJ, USA) single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, developed by its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (Beerse, Belgium), has become the first single-shot vaccine to be granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). More...
01 Mar 2021
Image: T-Detect COVID test (Photo courtesy of Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation)

First-Ever Clinical T-Cell Based Test for Patients Confirms Recent or Prior COVID-19 Infection

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (Seattle, WA, USA) has launched T-Detect COVID, the first clinical T-cell based test to confirm recent or prior COVID-19 infection. More...
01 Mar 2021
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