Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a two-year, $5 million grant to offer 50,000 saliva tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus developed by researchers at the medical school to students, teachers and staff in the six special education...
The Buchser Lab has a new preprint, “Low-Cost Manually Assembled Open Source Reader for Isothermal Pathogen Detection from Saliva using RT-LAMP: SARS-CoV-2 Use Case.” Jack Bramley, a staff scientist in the lab, is lead author on the preprint. Senior...
The Department of Genetics and McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI) at Washington University School of Medicine, in collaboration with biotech company Fluidigm, are developing a saliva test to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Fluidigm this week received emergency use...