News items for the week of Oct. 11, 2021. 

An FDA advisory committee supports authorizing a booster for Moderna's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, CNN reports.

SARS-CoV-2 testing at a UK lab has been suspended following a number of false negative results.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Paul Stoffels will be stepping down as chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson by the end of the year.

In Science this week: gene-protein-disease map, epigenomic and transcriptomic approach highlights potential therapeutic target for gliomas, and more

An estimated 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative PCR test results between Sept. 8 and Oct. 12, mostly in the Southwest of England.

The awards support the development, validation, scale-up, and manufacturing of the tests with the goal of bringing them to market as early as this year.

Last month, the agency alerted users to the potential of false positives due to overflow of the PCR reaction mixture into neighboring wells of the assay reagent tray.