by Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Infectious Diseases (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00472 Caltech researchers have developed a new at-home test for COVID-19 that is more than twice as sensitive as current state-of-the-art antigen tests. While the test was developed for COVID-19, the technology can be used as a platform for designing tests to detect other...
by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Infection of primary human cells with mpox virus (MPXV) isolates obtained from patients during the current outbreak and sensitivity to antiviral drugs. Credit: New England Journal of Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2212136 The mpox virus is closely related to the smallpox virus (variola virus), which caused large, deadly outbreaks before it was...
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is one of the most important methods to study biological function in cells, but it is limited by potential inaccuracies in the data it generates. Now, a research team from Japan has developed a new method called terminator-assisted solid-phase complementary DNA amplification and sequencing (TAS-Seq), which overcomes these limitations and provides higher-precision...
