Simon Fraser University

FHS grad students evaluate COVID-19 swab collection techniques to improve patient diagnostic experience

Nasopharyngeal swabs have been used for decades to diagnose respiratory infections, including COVID-19. A trained healthcare professional takes the sample by inserting a long swab through the nose to ...
Pharmabiz

SpiceHealth to use dry-swab procedure in its mobile COVID-19 testing laboratories

The SpiceHealth has for the first time launched mobile COVID-19 testing laboratory using the new dry swab testing procedure developed by the scientists of Council for Scientific Industrial ...
Business Wire

Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology, developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School, to Mass. startup Rhinostics

The combined technologies could reduce labor and time required for COVID-19 diagnostic testing 10-fold, and facilitate future diagnostic testing of other respiratory diseases. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)- ...
Healthline

How a Nasal Swab Test Can Detect the Risk of Lung Cancer

There are roughly 225,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the United States. Early diagnosis and treatment play a large role in improving outcomes. A recently developed nasal swab test could ...