Testing is essential to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Through our work providing critical components to diagnostic developers, I have seen first-hand the focus and commitment to bringing tests to market as quickly as possible a... Read More >

COVID-19 screening can soon be conducted directly at various testing stations, and patients can get their test results in about an hour from the time they get a nasal swab.... Read More >

Changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to the onset of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in some patients who have the disease, according to University of Utah Health scientists. ... Read More >

Keck Medicine of USC physicians are enrolling patients as part of an international clinical trial, designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the antiviral drug DAS181, as a possible treatment for patients with severe COVID-19.... Read More >

Researchers have discovered that the presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the plasma of women's blood are critical indicators for the prediction of disease recurrence and disease-free survival.... Read More >

Strains of a common subtype of influenza virus, H3N2, have almost universally acquired a mutation that effectively blocks antibodies from binding to a key viral protein.... Read More >

After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. ... Read More >

The Rogers group and researchers introduced a novel wearable device and set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs and symptoms associated with COVID-19 and to monitor patients as the illness progresses.... Read More >

New research will help health-care practitioners to more accurately diagnose disease and illness in newborn babies from urine samples, according to a study by researchers at the University of Alberta and the Universidad Autónoma de Zacateca... Read More >

PreTRM is a serum-based proteomic test that uses the ratio of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 4 (IBP4) to sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) to predict the risk of preterm birth. ... Read More >