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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center made history Monday as one of the first places in the United States and the first in Ohio to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
Researchers from Tulane University have developed a 15-minute COVID-19 test that is read by a smartphone to address the need to expand testing capacity in community-based settings.
Michigan State University researchers have received $2.1 million in grant funding to test for the novel coronavirus in wastewater, which has the potential to be an early warning system for the presence of COVID-19.
A simple, scratch-and-sniff test could play a key role in curbing the spread of COVID-19, at a fraction of the cost of high-tech tests that are difficult to scale and take longer to return results, new CU Boulder research suggests.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will shift on-campus COVID-19 testing to make the processing of results even faster.