{"id":133686,"date":"2022-01-07T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/rockefeller-saliva-test-for-covid-19-outperforms-commercial-swab-tests"},"modified":"2022-01-07T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:22:19","slug":"rockefeller-saliva-test-for-covid-19-outperforms-commercial-swab-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/rockefeller-saliva-test-for-covid-19-outperforms-commercial-swab-tests","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller saliva test for COVID-19 outperforms commercial swab tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rockefeller-saliva-test-for-covid-19-outperforms-commercial-swab-tests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, <a href=\"https:\/\/seek.rockefeller.edu\/building-a-better-covid-test\/\">Rockefeller\u2019s Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay<\/a> to identify positive cases within the Rockefeller community. It turned out to be easier and safer to administer than the tests available at the time, and it has been used tens of thousands of times over the past nine months to identify and isolate infected individuals working on the university\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0252949#sec010\">a new study in PLoS<\/a> confirms that Darnell\u2019s test performs as well, if not better, than FDA-authorized nasal and oral swab tests. In a direct head-to-head comparison of 162 individuals who received both Rockefeller\u2019s \u201cDRUL\u201d saliva test and a conventional swab test, DRUL caught all of the cases that the swabs identified as positive\u2014plus four positive cases that the swabs missed entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research confirms that the test we developed is sensitive and safe,\u201d says Darnell, the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology. \u201cIt is inexpensive, has provided excellent surveillance within the Rockefeller community, and has the potential to improve safety in communities as the pandemic drags on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, Rockefeller\u2019s Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay to identify positive cases within the Rockefeller community. It turned out to be easier and safer to administer than the tests available at the time, and it has been used tens of thousands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133686","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}