In the COVID-19 pandemic era, at-home, portable tests were crucial for knowing when to wear a mask or isolate at home. Now, ...

cuhk.edu.hk Objective Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA was detected in faeces of patients ... using TaKaRa MiniBEST Viral RNA/DNA Extraction Kit (Takara, Japan ...

Introduction: The ongoing 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants ... the development of a nucleic acid ...

Samples were tested by RT-PCR following the steps of the kit in a tertiary protection laboratory ... while nucleic acid test of throat swab turned to negative. SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted through ...

This study provides important insights into how IL-1 cytokines protect cells against SARS-CoV-2 infection. By inducing a non-canonical ... from THP-1 and PBMCs were determined using ELISA kit, ...

SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) and spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) IgG ELISA were used to assess antibody levels in plasma collected at baseline and 1 month after second ...

Test sensitivity (95% CI) was 67.0% (56.9% to 76.1%) for influenza A (n=100), 94.1% (71.3% to 99.9%) for influenza B (n=17) and 48.2% (39.7% to 56.8%) for SARS-CoV-2 (n=141). Sensitivity for ...

Some public health data targeted by Trump’s executive orders has been restored, but what’s changed and how will that affect health policy?

New research emphasizes the need for ongoing COVID-19 protection for people with weakened immune systems, with scalable tests helping identify those most at risk to enable tailored strategies.

A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved from initially ...