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A team from Saarland University has adapted and tested a method of sample pooling for use in coronavirus diagnostics, which could help to meet the high demand for testing of asymptomatic individuals.

Results from a first-of-its-kind study of a multicancer blood test in more than 9,900 women with no evidence or history of cancer showed the liquid biopsy test safely detected 26 undiagnosed cancers, enabling potentially curative treatment.

Researchers report the development of a sensitive and specific assay to detect different serotypes of Salmonella, paving the way for rapid serotyping directly from specimens.

New low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

Recently, a research team at POSTECH developed wirelessly driven "smart contact lens" technology that can detect diabetes and further treat diabetic retinopathy just by wearing them.

Researchers have developed a technique to diagnose early-stage multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system, and distinguish it from neuromyelitis optica, a rare yet severe autoimmune inflammatory process also affecting the central nervous system.

A new blood test for Alzheimer's disease has been developed under the leadership of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The method is based on measuring a specific variant of tau protein in ordinary blood samples, which makes the test relatively simple and cheap to perform.

A new approach to monitoring SARS-CoV-2, known as wastewater-based epidemiology, mines sewage samples for vital clues about human health. It can potentially identify levels of coronavirus infection at both a local and global scale.

A new protocol using highly sensitive blood tests to determine whether someone is having a heart attack could help to reduce wait times and overcrowding in emergency departments.

A survey of former NFL players has revealed that some say they have received a CTE diagnosis, raising questions about diagnoses of degenerative brain disease.