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Author: Brett Johnson
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) penned the following op-ed published in New York Times calling on Congress to support the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission to assess the U.S. pandemic response and ensure the country is better prepared to confront future public health and economic crises. The senators have introduced the National Coronavirus Commission Act, the only bipartisan, bicameral legislation of its kind. There Will Be Another Pandemic — Are We Prepared For It? By Bob Menendez and Susan Collins The devastating events of Sept. 11, 2001, shook the United States to its…
As part of LumiraDx’s Fast Lab Solutions, the test enables laboratories to increase throughput of their existing open channel PCR systems to more than 250 tests per hour London, UK- June 30, 2021 – LumiraDx announced today that it has achieved CE Marking for LumiraDx RNA STAR Complete SARS-CoV-2. The test, which was initially granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October of 2020 and re-issued in March 2021, is a rapid, nucleic acid amplification method for high sensitivity, high throughput COVID-19 testing. With improved performance claims and access to additional open channel…
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Aerosol Sense Sampler was announced this week (March 24th). It detects a variety of airborne pathogens, including the coronavirus. The Aerosol Sampler is about the size of a toaster oven. It sucks in ambient air and trapped airborne virus particles — if there were any to be found — into a specialized cartridge. Daily removal of the cartridge then delivered to laboratory for analysis. At $4,995, AerosolSense is reputed to be simpler and more accessible and will enable collection of air samples “by almost anyone” according to observers. One device can cover about 2000 sf. Experts field…
LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2021) – XPRIZE announced today the five winning teams in the $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition to create high-quality, affordable COVID-19 testing to help society safely reopen and return to everyday activities. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the grand prize winning solutions are radically affordable compared to what is currently available on the market; and are comparable to commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity and limit of detection, with a maximum turnaround time of 12 hours from sample to result. The winning teams are: Reliable LFC, LLC, Antigen Testing, Carlsbad, United States ChromaCode,…
The Saliva Clear Solution Below is a 8 minute video and full text summary of the SalivaClear solution as presented by Mirimus Labs Founder and CEO Prem Premsrirut at the Virus Project Contagion Conference. Full Text version of presentation. Lightly edited for clarity. Mirimus Labs CEO Prem Premsrirut MD is a pioneer in RNAi therapeutic design and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology implementation for preclinical studies. She received a B.A. in Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry from UC Berkeley. She is also founder of the Mobilizing Foundation which is committed to the eradication of COVID-19 and the prevention of future pandemics…
The Virus Project will begin production of a White Paper and documentary on reopening schools and keeping them open. Research will focus on the K-12 schools that stayed open during the pandemic. The goal is a multimedia asset that addresses this issue and help schools everywhere reopen. The Virus Project was formed to aggregate the best ideas and thinking to provide a platform for innovators to collaborate and find solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. K-12 schools is an area of significant challenge but with noticeable progress. White Paper and Research Study: K-12 schools. Dealing with COVID-19. This White Paper will…
MIT researchers have found a new angle: applying AI to detect COVID-19 in an asymptomatic patient. From a cough. Recorded by a phone. Earlier this year, researchers from MIT solicited tens of thousands of recorded “forced” (i.e. not naturally occurring) coughs from over 5,300 subjects – both COVID-positive and COVID-negative – in addition to data about physical symptoms and demographics. They then used that data to train a revised version of their Alzheimer’s model (That had been the target of earlier research with this technology) to distinguish between COVID-infected and COVID-uninfected coughers. MIT researchers had been working on AI cough…