A saliva-based COVID-19 diagnostic that is being used to test thousands of students every day at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is now covered by an emergency use authorization (EUA) ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland StopCOVID Research Group have conducted a study comparing saliva and mid-turbinate nasal swabs (MTS) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) detection and ...

AMANDA: WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE TESTING BEING DONE AT THIS NEW TESTING SITE THAT IS OPENED UP AT THE MULLAH MILLENNIA IS MANY PEOPLE MAY FIND IT -- THE MALL OF MILLENIA IS MANY PEOPLE MAY FIND IT A ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a small tabletop device that can detect SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample in about an hour. In a new study, they showed that the ...

The gold standard for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently based on detection using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction ...

As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used. The study led by ...

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have found that SARS-CoV-2 genetic material can be reliably detected in self-collected saliva samples at a rate similar to that of ...

Based on an antibody study, dried samples of easily self-collected saliva and of blood drawn from the fingertip could be useful for monitoring people's immune responses to vaccination. Based on an ...