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BillionToOne, Sugentech Coronavirus Tests Get FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Sep 08, 2020
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NEW YORK — The US Food and Drug Administration last week granted separate Emergency Use Authorizations for BillionToOne's Sanger sequencing-based SARS-CoV-2 test, as well as an antibody test for the virus developed by South Korean diagnostics firm Sugentech.

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