Accelerating Probe and Primer Production for COVID-19 Test Kits

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Accelerating Probe and Primer Production for COVID-19 Test Kits With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic ongoing, millions of testing kits are needed internationally every single day. Here, we see how LGC, Biosearch Technologies, a leading provider of tools and technologies for genetic analysis, is helping respond to this demand, assisted by evaporation technology from SP Genevac. Find Out More

A researcher's toolbox for studying COVID-19 therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics   BPS Bioscience has developed a portfolio of recombinant proteins, unique assay kits, pseudovirions, antibodies and cell-lines to help researchers understand the pathogenesis of the SARSCoV2 viral disease. Identify key inhibitors, screen your compounds, validate assays and test drug efficacy. Both products and services are available and customizable for your research needs.   Read More           Bioinsider launches COVID-19 virtual meeting series   Bioinsider has opened registration and a call for speaker proposals for its four-part virtual meeting series, Together as One COVID-19 Series.

Experts review symptoms, diagnosis, and current treatment of COVID-19   The ongoing economic and social impact of the pandemic is staggering, but despite a daily flood of news on the disease, few laypeople know that paradoxically, COVID-19 mostly kills through an overreaction of the immune system, whose function is precisely to fight infections.       Research explores how COVID-19 is spreading and mutating in the environment   A multi-disciplinary team of experts in virology and computer modeling has quickly assembled at San Diego State University to learn more about how the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads in the environment and how its trajectory can be better predicted.       Pediatric cancer patients are not at higher risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds   Researchers from MSK Kids at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) found that children with cancer are not at a higher risk of being affected by COVID-19.       Importance of detecting neutralizing antibody response in recovered COVID-19 patients   In an article published today in Cell Host and Microbe, Professor Kanta Subbarao stressed the importance of detecting a neutralizing antibody response in recovered COVID-19 patients, and of studies of COVID-19 vaccines in animal models.

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