Rutgers University research professor Andrew Brooks, who helped create the first saliva-based COVID-19 test, has died unexpectedly. Brooks, 51, led the creation of the spit test for the coronavirus that received FDA emergency use authorization in April. In tandem with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostics Labs, Rutgers University’s RUCDR developed the saliva collection methods as an alternative to […]
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FDA authorizes at-home collection for Rutgers’ saliva-based COVID-19 test
FDA announced today that it has expanded the previous EUA it granted for the saliva-based COVID-19 test out of Rutgers University — allowing people to collect samples at home and return the samples to the Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory in a sealed package for testing. The news comes just weeks after FDA authorized an at-home COVID-19 […]
FDA approves first saliva-based coronavirus test
The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Rutgers University’s RUCDR Infinite Biologics and its collaborators for an approach using saliva as test biomaterial for COVID-19. In tandem with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostics Labs, RUCDR developed the saliva collection methods as an alternative to nose and throat swabs when testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
This 3D printed implant replaces skull bone
A New Jersey doctor turned to Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes and a 3D printed implant to replace missing skull bone in a patient. The procedure was performed after the patient suffered brain swelling and the skull became infected. Dr. Gaurav Gupta, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, had to […]