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Illumina Snares First FDA Emergency Use Authorization for NGS-Based SARS-CoV-2 Test

Jun 09, 2020
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NEW YORK – Illumina said late Tuesday evening that its next-generation sequencing based test for COVID-19 has been issued Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration, making it the first NGS test to receive such designation for detecting SARS-CoV-2.

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