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Dec 16, 2020

Sherlock Biosciences Receives $5M Gates Foundation Grant for COVID-19 Self-Test

The funding will help the company further develop its INSPECTR molecular diagnostic platform into a test that can be used in various settings.

Oct 12, 2020

Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative Launches With $100M Investment

The initiative will build up pathogen sequencing capacity through investment from the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Illumina, and Oxford Nanopore.

Sep 29, 2020

Millions of Tests

The World Health Organization will be providing low-cost COVID-19 tests to low- and middle-income nations, according to Reuters.

May 27, 2020

Stopped It

The Food and Drug Administration's decision to halt a SARS-CoV-2 study has drawn criticism, according to Stat News.

Apr 24, 2020

Post-COVID-19 World Envisioned

At the Economist and his own site, Bill Gates discusses the scientific advances needed to address the pandemic and what comes next.

Mar 27, 2020

New Method for Detecting Point Mutations Could Significantly Impact Low-Cost Diagnostics

Premium

The method can be used with isothermal amplification and paper-based readouts to detect infectious disease drug resistance in low-resource areas.

Mar 27, 2020

For the Accelerator

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is putting $25 million toward COVID-19 treatment research, according to the Verge.

Mar 11, 2020

And Then for All

NIH Director Francis Collins describes at Forbes how the agency is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease and HIV for sub-Saharan Africa.

Mar 09, 2020

Gates Foundation to Fund Home SARS-CoV-2 Testing

According to the Seattle Times, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to enable home testing kits for SARS-CoV-2 to the Seattle area.

Feb 20, 2020

Biological Dynamics Gets $1M Grant to Advance TB Test

The funding comes from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which previously provided the company with $500,000 for the test's initial development.

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The Scan

Germany to Increase Viral Sequencing

Reuters reports that Germany is seeking to sequence 5 percent of patient samples that test positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Getting Used to It

23andMe and Medscape say primary care physicians are increasingly more comfortable with discussing direct-to-consumer genetic testing results.

Green Access at Science

The publisher of the Science family of journals will allow some authors to place peer-reviewed versions of their papers into publicly accessible repositories.

Science Papers Examine Chronic Kidney Disease GWAS, Pneumonia Microbiome

In Science this week: analysis of genome-wide association studies of chronic kidney disease, and more.

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