Nicoya gets NRC IRAP financing to create salivation based indicative test for COVID-19 Kumar Jeetendra | June 23, 2020 Nicoya, a main supplier of cutting edge expository instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical businesses, will get warning administrations and up to $299,190 in innovative work subsidizing from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to build up a compact COVID-19 demonstrative test called Atlas. This financing comes as a …
Researchers grow new serological assay for discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies Kumar Jeetendra | December 13, 2020 Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a novel serological assay for the detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus which causes COVID-19. Rebecca DuBois, associate professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, said the new method her staff developed is as accurate as the most dependable antibody tests now available, but is less …
Scientists grow new framework for direct location of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols Kumar Jeetendra | December 28, 2020 Researchers in the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), in collaboration with specialists from the University of Valencia (UV), have produced a new system based on a high-sensitivity mass biosensor that continuously monitors signals for the immediate detection of SARS-CoV-2 in environmental aerosols. The device, in prototype stage, makes it possible to appraise the quality of …
New hereditarily encoded sensor recognizes drugs of abuse Kumar Jeetendra | April 29, 2021 A genetically encoded sensor to detect hallucinogenic compounds has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Named psychLight, the sensor could be used in discovering new treatments for mental illness, in neuroscience research and to detect drugs of abuse. The work is published April 28 in the journal Cell. Compounds associated with …
