The FDA has yet to approve in-home testing, but it could be the future.
The test was developed in a Rutgers University lab and is designed to check for evidence of the coronavirus in a patient’s saliva.said he believes this new way to collect patient samples could serve as a bridge to widespread national testing -- modeled off the kits used by familiar commercial genealogical brands like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me.
"And for people that don't have cars, that don't have access, that are on quarantine. It makes it more broadly available," Brooks said."We're hoping very soon … that may be very well possible." Brooks has another good reason to consider the potential of easy-to-use DNA collection kits as a way to scale up coronavirus testing. He is also chief scientist for Spectrum DNA, the Utah-based company that already supplies those kits to Ancestry.com and developed the special preservative that has enabled customers to spit in a tube and mail their saliva samples to the company's labs for DNA analysis.
"The convenience, the sheer number of people you can get to – we're all sheltering in place, you can't leave, it's better that you don't leave," said Dr. Ruth Ann Crystal, a Stanford-trained obstetrician who works closely with multiple health care technology startups."At-home testing would be amazing."Can genealogy firms pull it off?
A medical professional collects a sample after administering a coronavirus test to a patient at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site, April 6, 2020 in Jericho, New York."[The labs] are in the process of evaluating whether or not our device and our stabilization fluid supports COVID testing," Ball said."If it works, it works. We are hopeful that we can make a positive impact if it works.
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