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Researchers create new type of COVID-19 antibody test

from University of North Carolina Health Care via Medical Xpress

Researchers create new type of COVID-19 antibody test University of North Carolina Health Care via Medical Xpress As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with many thousands of new infections reported each day, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding of infection rates, especially the number of infections in people with mild or no symptoms, who can still be carriers. UNC School of Medicine scientists and colleagues developed a new kind of antibody test—a simplified experimental assay that could be ramped up to test thousands of blood samples at labs that do not have the resources of commercial labs and large academic medical centers. READ MORE

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