Adicet Bio, Inc. , a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for cancer, today announced the acceptance of three abstracts for a poster.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new test that can detect the presence of coronavirus RNA in under five minutes. The test – based on thin-film graphene and filter paper sensor – is cheap to produce, portable, and can be adapted for sensing other diseases.
The COVID-19 virus spread through the planet with devastating consequences from early 2020. The world is still in the grip of this global pandemic – which public health professionals have been predicting for decades – and it is likely that there will be more pandemics in coming decades.
As many victims and carriers of the virus can be asymptomatic while still being infectious, the World Health Organization advised governments early into the pandemic to pursue wide-ranging testing programs as key parts of their pandemic response.