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University of Kansas Health System Laboratory Shares Lessons from Assessing Pooled Testing for COVID-19 Patients
Pooled testing for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has its supporters and its critics. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to pooling multiple patients’ biological samples into a single COVID-19 test in the hopes that the result will be all negative.
IVDR—The Impact of COVID-19
“Given how COVID-19 has brought the EU’s IVDR implementation progress to a halt, compounding on the challenges that already existed, the remaining IVDR transition time is not tenable and urgently requires attention and solutions,” said Serge Bernasconi, CEO of MedTech Europe, from MedTech Europe’s Statement Industry reinstates its call for solutions to ensure a workable transition to the new regulatory frameworks for medical devices and in vitro diagnostics, Oct. 2020.
New Study Identifies Top-Performing Point-of-Care COVID-19 Tests
After screening more than 1,100 independently assessed, point-of-care COVID-19 tests, researchers at NSF International and Novateur Ventures have identified five direct (antigen/RNA) tests for detection of acute infection and six indirect (antibody) tests for detection of prior infection that meet the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) "desirable" Target Product Profile (TPP) criteria.
Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before RCMP asked to investigate
Newly-released access-to-information documents reveal details about a shipment of deadly pathogens last year from Canada's National Microbiology Lab to China — confirming for the first time who sent them, what exactly was shipped, and where it went.
New Test Provides Fast and Accurate Diagnosis of Liposarcomas
Researchers have leveraged the latest advances in RNA technology and machine learning methods to develop a gene panel test that allows for highly accurate diagnosis of the most common types of liposarcoma.
Scientists let go from National Microbiology Laboratory amid RCMP investigation
Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an RCMP investigation and internal review have been let go from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CBC News has learned.
Virtual Reality Training Improves Interpersonal Skills
The popularity of virtual reality (VR) has expanded from simple fun and games to being used as a training tool for employees.
VA’s ‘Million Veterans Program’ Research Study Receives Its 100,000th Human Genome Sequence
As the COVID-19 pandemic grabbed headlines, the human genome database at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Million Veterans Program (MVP) quietly grew. Now, this wealth of genomic information—as well as data from other large-scale genomic and genetic collections—is expected to produce new biomarkers for clinical laboratory diagnostics and testing.
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