Rapid COVID-19 tests: how good are they?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain The COVID-19 pandemic marked the first time in the history of pandemics that self-testing was used ...
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Progress toward developing blood tests for psychiatric and neurological disorders
Proteins used for the isolation of EVs of neuronal origin lack brain specificity. The expression of L1CAM and NCAM mRNA ...
Tests can reveal if an antibody can turn into a killer
The venom of Bothrops asper, a Costa Rican lancehead snake, can cause debilitating damage to muscle tissue. Credit: Vanesa Zarzosa ...
“Stellar paternity tests” link orphaned stars to their origins in the Milky Way
Credit: CC0 Public domain In the chaotic environment of open star clusters, strong gravitational interactions between bodies can throw individual ...
Scientists use blood tests to track gene expression in the brain
Scan of the hippocampus and cortex of mice, where the red signal comes from the immunostaining of the synthetic marker ...
Persistent brain damage caused by COVID-19 is not always detected by routine tests
Immune mediators are extremely elevated and correlate with different markers of brain damage at different times. Credit: Natural communications (2023). ...
