{"id":105116,"date":"2020-04-10T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/test-for-antibodies-against-novel-coronavirus-developed-at-stanford-medicine"},"modified":"2020-04-10T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T02:02:19","slug":"test-for-antibodies-against-novel-coronavirus-developed-at-stanford-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/test-for-antibodies-against-novel-coronavirus-developed-at-stanford-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Test for antibodies against novel coronavirus developed at Stanford Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/test-for-antibodies-against-novel-coronavirus-developed-at-stanford-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working around the clock for two weeks, a large team of Stanford Medicine scientists has developed a test to detect antibodies against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in blood samples.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to current diagnostic tests for <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/covid19.html\">COVID-19<\/a>, which detect genetic material from the virus in respiratory secretions, this test looks for antibodies to the virus in plasma, the liquid in blood, to provide information about a person\u2019s immune response to an infection.<\/p>\n<p>The test was launched April 6 at <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordhealthcare.org\/\">Stanford Health Care<\/a>. It differs from an externally developed test that Stanford researchers used for a prevalence study during recent community screening events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working around the clock for two weeks, a large team of Stanford Medicine scientists has developed a test to detect antibodies against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in blood samples. In contrast to current diagnostic tests for COVID-19, which detect genetic material from the virus in respiratory secretions, this test looks for antibodies to the virus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}