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Frequent, rapid testing could cripple COVID within weeks, study shows
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Frequent, rapid testing could cripple COVID within weeks, study shows

by Lisa Marshall,  University of Colorado at Boulder Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid-turnaround COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks— even if those tests are significantly less sensitive than gold-standard clinical tests, according to a new study published today by University of Colorado Boulder and Harvard University researchers. Such a strategy could...

Inexpensive and rapid testing of drugs for resistant infections possible
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Inexpensive and rapid testing of drugs for resistant infections possible

by Walt Mills,  Pennsylvania State University Convergence of machine learning and dynamic laser speckle imaging to monitor bacterial motion enables rapid and accurate identification of antibiotic resistance and the minimum drug dosage needed to inhibit bacterial growth. A rapid and simple method for testing the efficacy of antibacterial drugs on infectious microbes has been developed and...