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New study ranks performance of available COVID-19 antibody tests
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 16 (ANI): A new peer-reviewed study by researchers at NSF International and Novateur Ventures finds significant variability in the accuracy of currently available COVID-19 antibody tests.
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Kerala starts antibody tests at airports
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 28 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja has said that the state has started antibody tests in airports for expats.
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J Mitra launches COVID-19 total antibody detection Elisa test kit
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 17 (ANI/PRNewswire): J Mitra & Co Pvt Ltd, India's leading global MNC in the In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) industry has launched its state-of-the-art COVID-19 Test Kit in the Indian market.
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India gifts COVID-19 PCR test kits to Nepal
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 17 (ANI): India on Sunday gifted a consignment of Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and antibody test kits to Nepal which will enable their health professionals to conduct COVID-19 tests on at least 30,000 people in the country.
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Combating COVID-19: NIV-Pune develops India's first antibody testing kit -
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said that the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has successfully developed India's first indigenous antibody testing kit -- ELISA -- to combat COVID-19.
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ICMR to conduct study in about 75 districts to check for community transmi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is all set to start a study in about 75 districts of the country that have the maximum number of COVID-19 cases to check whether community transmission in India has started.
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4-year-old Belgian llama could be the key in fighting COVID-19, says study
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 7 (ANI): The global race to find an effective treatment for coronavirus has come to a unique standpoint -- a four-year-old llama, named Winter, whose antibodies are effective in neutralising those new viruses in lab experiments that cause COVID-19, according to a stu
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'Of course, we will share it with the world': Israel's ambassador to India
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Israel's ambassador to India, Ron Malka on Wednesday said that his country is an advanced stage of a breakthrough on developing antibody to the novel coronavirus and is awaiting results of the clinical trials.
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Israel's Biological Institute completes development phase of COVID-19 anti
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], May 5 (ANI): Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday said he witnessed a "significant breakthrough" by the country's biological research institute in developing an antibody to COVID-19 infection.
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Combating COVID-19: Dr Harsh Vardhan discusses progress on antibody drug -
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday discussed among other things the progress over Remdesivir -- antibody-drug recently approved by the US-FDA for emergency use to treat COVID-19 patients -- with the heads of Council of Scientific and Industria
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Tocilizumab drug may help fight severe coronavirus cases, study finds
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 30 (ANI): An antibody treatment, using the drug tocilizumab, may be represented as an effective option in severe coronavirus cases, according to a preliminary report by Xiaoling Xu et al, published in PNAS.
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Indigenous coronavirus testing kits will be available in May: Dr Harsh Var
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that the country will be able to produce indigenous coronavirus-testing kits by May.
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