THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 2020 — Point-of-care testing is associated with large reductions in the time to results for patients presenting with suspected COVID-19, according to a study published online Oct. 8 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Nathan J. Brendish, Ph.D.,…
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COVID-19 rapid test has successful lab results, research moves to next stages
Rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in about 30 seconds following the test, has had successful preliminary results in Mano Misra’s lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. The test uses a nanotube-based electrochemical biosensor, a similar technology that Misra…
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Simpler COVID-19 test could provide results in hours from saliva
Volunteers at four sites in Madison are being tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 by spitting in a vial, which may prove faster, cheaper and less complicated than other common tests, according to University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers. Scientists from…
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Altimmune COVID-19 vaccine candidate tested at UAB shows positive preclinical results
Altimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has announced positive results from the preclinical studies conducted in mice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AdCOVID. The studies—a collaboration between UAB and the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based…
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Promising pre-clinical results for COVID-19 vaccine
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) has cleared another major milestone in moving towards human clinical trials: the novel vaccine has proven highly effective in ferrets, one…
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Moderna: Early coronavirus vaccine results are encouraging
An experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing, triggering hoped-for immune responses in eight healthy, middle-aged volunteers, its maker a project called “Operation Warp Speed” to develop a vaccine and hopefully have 300 million doses…
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Unique opportunity: Drosten-successor starts great Corona-the study in Kreis Heinsberg
The district of Heinsberg is with over 1200 Infected as the “German city of Wuhan”. Now you could play again a leading role when a large-scale study Gangelt in the municipality of new knowledge to the Coronavirus provides. To ensure…
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Air filters in classrooms drives up exam results, study finds
Installing air filters in schools to sieve out toxic pollutants ‘can boost pupils’ grades and improve learning as much as cutting class sizes by a third’ £750 systems linked to increased scores in maths and English over two years Had…
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