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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montgomery County sheriff’s investigators arrested Jeremy Michael Buckner, 35, of Porter, in connection with a fatal hit-and-run on U.S. Highway 59. Read full article: Detectives arrest Porter man in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The addition of a simple processing step to saliva samples before testing may improve COVID-19 detection rate, eliminate the challenges of nasopharyngeal testing, and facilitate mass surveillance, ...