The New England Journal of Medicine

How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen

Collection of specimens from the surface of the respiratory mucosa with nasopharyngeal swabs is a procedure used for the diagnosis of Covid-19 in adults and children. 1-4 The procedure is also ...
Business Wire

Rhinostics Launches the ELEstic™/ELEbot™ Platform, Bringing Proven Automated Swab Workflows to Broad Diagnostics Systems

Novel Automated Design Enables Comfortable Home and Clinic Swab Collection with Robotic High-Throughput Processing in 75mm by 13mm Tube Formats WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rhinostics introduces ...
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Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology, developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School, to Mass. startup Rhinostics

The combined technologies could reduce labor and time required for COVID-19 diagnostic testing 10-fold, and facilitate future diagnostic testing of other respiratory diseases. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)- ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing

The early medical response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States was limited in part by the availability of testing. Health care workers collected a swab sample from the patients’ oropharynx ...
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Self-collected saliva samples prove effective for diagnosing COVID-19

Philadelphia, December 10, 2020 - Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have found that SARS-CoV-2 genetic material can be reliably detected in self-collected saliva samples at a ...