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Australian engineers have developed a rapid COVID-19 antibody test – create digital
A world-first breakthrough could see COVID-19 antibody test results returned in 20 minutes, with hospitals able to process 700 tests per hour.
COVID-19 and beyond
Corrie also raised the possibility of making assays that could detect other parts of the COVID-19 immune response.
There’s some evidence that cytokine levels these are relatively low abundance proteins in the blood could be used to determine the severity of the disease, or to monitor the sort of cytokine storm response to that which may be associated with a severe case of COVID-19, he said.
Beyond COVID-19 antibodies, the rapid test could be deployed to fight other diseas…
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