COVID-19 testing
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The two companies offer a more comprehensive package than those being pitched by their competitors in the tech-driven return-to-work space.
The FDA now allows LabCorp's platform to test patients with no COVID-19 symptoms, or to run samples from up to five patients at a time.
The study indicated that the reagent used in Lucence’s SAFER Sample saliva collection kit inactivates SARS-CoV-2 within 45 seconds of sample collection.
The consumer-facing digital platform for health testing was forced to pump the brakes on a similar offering roughly two months ago.
Researchers from SMART’s AMR IRG, NTU and MIT are working together to develop a rapid serological test and a rapid diagnostic test (RDT), based on protein detection.
Professor Wang Linfa, Director of the Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious Diseases programme, and team conceived this research and invented the cPass diagnostic test.
Following a virtual consultation, both companies are supplying Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory's saliva-based molecular test to consumers at $150 per kit.
"Virtual Office for Doctors" had been built to ensure secure remote consultations.
Users will now be able to collect a sample at home and send it to the lab in a sealed package.