In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys. OXFORD, England – In the worldwide race for… Continue Reading →
COVID-19 Testing Project We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers and physicians at UCSF, UC Berkeley, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and Innovative Genomics Institute. Antibody tests for prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2 virus are urgently needed. We are performing head-to-head comparisons of… Continue Reading →
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory are working hard to find and study Covid-19 antibodies, which are made by humans who have recovered from the virus. Argonne biologist Andrezej Joachnimiak is specifically focusing on determining the… Continue Reading →
The FDA has recently approved the first coronavirus antibody test for use in the United States. The new test, made by Cellex, looks for both immunoglobulin M (igM), and immunoglobulin G (igG), which are two different types of antibodies. Compared… Continue Reading →
In March, the FDA relaxed their standards by allowing companies to sell antibody testing without proving that the tests worked. After this resulted in poor quality tests flooding the market, the FDA has reconsidered their options and decided that government… Continue Reading →