160800login-checkCoronavirus antibody tests have had plenty of problems. Hopkins is developing a better, at-home version |
Plenty of people want to know whether they ever had COVID-19, and public officials need to know. But existing antibody tests that look for markers of the disease caused by the coronavirus have not met the challenge, with accuracy, cost and convenience problems.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, however, are working on the next generation of these tests that can be done at home.
“We wanted to develop something you could use on your kids,” said Netz Arroyo, a Hopkins assistant professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences who joined with a biomedical engineer and a biophysicist to repurpose a common medical device to look for the virus.
“It would be easy and you may not even have to poke their finger every time,” he said. “Now you have to go to a lab and have a blood draw.”
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160800login-checkCoronavirus antibody tests have had plenty of problems. Hopkins is developing a better, at-home version |