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COVID-19 May Be Triggering Diabetes in Healthy People, Experts Warn
Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 may actually trigger the onset of diabetes in healthy people and also cause severe complications of pre-existing diabetes.
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Researchers Create a New Type of COVID-19 Antibody Test
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.
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Blood Test May Help To Improve Liver Cancer Screening
Scientists have developed a new test that can help identify people who are likely to develop hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer. The approach uses a simple blood test to check for the patient’s previous exposure to certain viruses.
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New Sensor Could Dramatically Improve COVID-19 Testing
A new sensor that can give an immediate response to the presence of SARS-CoV-2 could dramatically improve the efficiency of testing and overcome some of the current surveillance bottlenecks, believe its developers.
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New Genetic Defect Linked to ALS
Researchers have identified how the effects of a particular gene mutation could lead to ALS.
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Dutch Study Indicates Value of Sewage Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 Tracking
Researchers have detected rising SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in sewage from several cities in the Netherlands at early stages of the pandemic, indicating the potential value of wastewater monitoring to track disease outbreaks.
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Study Highlights Importance of Periodically Re-evaluating COVID-19 Tests
As SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to mutate, it is important to check the efficacy of current diagnostic tests, say York University researchers, who found seven out of 27 methods had potential sequence mismatch issues that may lead to underperforming or false-negative COVID-19 test results.
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Large Study Suggests Blood Type O May Be a Protective Factor Against COVID-19
23andMe are in the process of conducting a large-scale genetic study to explore whether genetics are implicated in susceptibility to and severity of COVID-19. The company has shared its preliminary results.
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Kawasaki-like Syndrome Linked to COVID-19 in Children Is a New Condition
A study on children suffering from severe inflammatory symptoms linked to COVID-19 has determined that the condition is new and distinct from Kawasaki disease.
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Test Confirms COVID-19 as Trigger for Rare Kawasaki-like Syndrome in Children
Researchers have developed a blood test that has offered evidence confirming COVID-19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children.
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