Labroots

Lollipop for saliva collection

A team of researchers at the University of Washington have designed a novel (and unique!) way to collect saliva samples for testing, particularly from children: a special type of lollipop. This ...
Business Wire

Spectrum Solutions™ Saliva Collection Device Answers Critical Testing Hurdles, Enabling Large-Scale COVID-19 Testing While Protecting Health Professionals From Exposure

Our side-by-side test comparison of over 75 patient samples demonstrated that the use of saliva to extract viral RNA was in fact a robust source for COVID-19 detection and equal in performance to the ...
RAPS

FDA issues EUA for saliva-based COVID-19 test, provides path for wider home sample collection

FDA issues EUA for saliva-based COVID-19 test, provides path for wider home sample collection The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday granted the first emergency use authorization (EUA) ...
Nasdaq

OraSure’s Oragene®•Dx Saliva Collection Kit Included in Industry’s First FDA Authorization for a Whole Exome Sequencing Platform

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), a leader in point-of-care diagnostic tests, specimen collection devices, and microbiome laboratory and ...
Business Wire

Spectrum Solutions Secures Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its SDNA-1000 Saliva Collection Device, Expanding Access and COVID-19 Testing Options

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectrum Solutions, LLC today announced its SDNA-1000 saliva collection device has secured U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) EUA authorization. Spectrum’s ...
MobiHealthNews

BioIQ releases at-home COVID-19 and flu saliva sample collection kit

This morning BioIQ, a health-testing and biometric-screening technology company, released its at-home COVID-19, Flu A/Flu B, and 21 Test Respiratory Panel saliva test. The company partnered with P23 ...
News Medical

Saliva samples may be reliable alternative to nasal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing

The gold standard for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently based on detection using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction ...
Medical Xpress

Self-collected saliva samples prove effective for diagnosing COVID-19

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 rate similar to that of ...
The Scientist

Capturing Total Nucleic Acids from Saliva Samples for Multiomics Applications

Saliva is a viable alternative source of nucleic acids. A new collection device offers stable and easy saliva collection for extracting both DNA and RNA from a single sample. Saliva is proving itself ...
Yale Environment 360

Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19

As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used. The study led by ...
EurekAlert!

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 ...