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Rapid finger stick test to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

The current worldwide outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has wreaked devastating economic and social impacts, ...
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Adial Pharmaceuticals Announces COVID-19 Point-of-Care Antibody Test Granted First Ever FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Use with Fingerstick Blood Samples

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA / ACCESSWIRE / September 29, 2020 / Adial Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADIL; ADILW), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of treatments for ...
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MeMed Completes Development of First-Ever Fingerstick Host-Response Test for Rapid Differentiation of Bacterial and Viral Infections

-MeMed BV Flex™ simultaneously measures multiple host proteins, paired with machine learning, to deliver highly accurate results in 15 minutes from just a few drops of blood- -Designed for use in ...
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AstraZeneca, rHealth develop fingerstick test for low platelet count, a rare side effect of AZ's COVID vaccine

Earlier this year, a study conducted by the University of Edinburgh found that people who received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford were at a very slightly ...
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FDA’s Stenzel says agency ‘very interested’ in fingerstick serology as POC screening test

The question of screening for the COVID-19 pandemic continues to absorb the interest of both the U.S. FDA and test developers, and Tim Stenzel, director of the FDA’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and ...