MSU researchers identify new COVID-19 testing process
April 16, 2020 - MSUToday
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, a more accurate test that can detect the virus much earlier than other tests has been adapted and validated by Michigan State University researchers and could be available by the end of April. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been asked to grant emergency use authorization for the test.
The new testing method is 500 times more sensitive than the standard coronavirus test, said Jack Lipton chair of the College of Human Medicine’s Department of Translational Neuroscience, whose team validated the process. That is important, he said, because it reduces the number of false negative test results that incorrectly diagnose people as free of the disease, allowing them to infect others.
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