by Cindy Krischer Goodman Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Florida doctors are using a new test to determine someone’s future risk for Alzheimer’s disease from a few drops of spit. At a time when the disease’s prevalence is rising, the saliva test called genoSCORE analyzes more than 114,000 different genes to provide a score of 0 to 1...
COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives significantly. One of the things we had to get used to was nasal swabs for PCR testing. They are uncomfortable or even painful compared to a regular saliva test, but also necessary to detect COVID-19 cases and avoid spreading this viral infection. But then scientists at the University of Illinois have...
IMAGE: LEAD INVESTIGATOR CHAMINDIE PUNYADEERA, PHD, PERFORMS SALIVA TESTING. THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY SUPPORT THE UTILITY OF SALIVA TESTING AS A BIOMARKER FOR FACILITATING EARLY DETECTION AND SCREENING OF HIGH-RISK HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS DNA. CREDIT: CHAMINDIE PUNYADEERA Philadelphia, September 21, 2021 – Cancer causing high-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are responsible for the rising incidence of HR-HPV–driven...
by Rockefeller University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, Rockefeller University’s Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay to identify positive cases within the Rockefeller community. It turned out to be easier and safer to administer than the tests available at the time, and...
by Elsevier Acoustofluidic exosome isolation chip for salivary exosome isolation. The microfluidic channel is shown by red dye solution and the coin demonstrates the size of the chip. Two pairs of gold interdigital transducers are deposited along the channel, which separates particles according to size. Unfortunately, cancers that occur in the back of the mouth...
