The FDA granted its first emergency authorization for a rapid antibody blood test for COVID-19, developed by Cellex, allowing people to gauge a person’s immune response to the novel coronavirus. The ...

In the scurry to track, isolate and otherwise beat back the global coronavirus pandemic, testing people for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a high priority. But a different ...

The US and other countries are scrambling to test hundreds of thousands of people to see if they are infected by the coronavirus. That test, which employs a technique called PCR, looks directly for ...

Given the steady and menacing rise in both cases and deaths due to COVID-19 worldwide, scientists are still searching for efficient tools to diagnose the infection. One essential method of testing for ...

A fascinating new preprint discusses the potential for customized serologic testing in individuals who have or have not been vaccinated against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Scientists are starting to roll out new blood tests for the coronavirus, a key development that, unlike the current diagnostic tests, will help pinpoint people who are immune and reveal the full scope ...

Testing for COVID-19 continues to be too little too late in the United States. Many groups are working on closing the testing gap, by innovating new tests for both the presence of the virus and ...

Some think of them as a "quick fix" for getting out of coronavirus quarantine. But there's still a lot we don't know about Covid-19 immunity. As President Trump made moves this week to open the ...

It's easy to wonder whether the illness you had a few weeks ago was the coronavirus, though you might not have realized it at the time. A new serological test could provide some clarity. The test uses ...

White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to ...