Testing for SARS-CoV-2: lessons learned and current use cases

ES Theel, JE Kirby, NR Pollock - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The emergence and worldwide dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 required both urgent
development of new diagnostic tests and expansion of diagnostic testing capacity on an …

[HTML][HTML] Safety of monovalent and bivalent BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine boosters in at-risk populations in Israel: a large-scale, retrospective, self-controlled …

D Yamin, M Yechezkel, R Arbel… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 continues to be a major health threat, particularly among at-risk
groups, including individuals aged 60 years or older and people with particular medical …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmonic materials and manufacturing methods for rapid and sustainable thermal cycler for PCR

K Shrestha, S Kim, G Cho - Materials Today Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple outbreaks of fatal infectious diseases throughout history have intensified the need
for early diagnostic methods to efficiently control their spread. Polymerase chain reaction …

The real-time infection hospitalisation and fatality risk across the COVID-19 pandemic in England

T Ward, M Fyles, A Glaser, RS Paton… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic led to 231,841 deaths and 940,243 hospitalisations in England, by
the end of March 2023. This paper calculates the real-time infection hospitalisation risk (IHR) …

Active teacher selection for reinforcement learning from human feedback

R Freedman, J Svegliato, K Wray, S Russell - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) enables machine learning systems to
learn objectives from human feedback. A core limitation of these systems is their assumption …

High‐Precision Viral Detection Using Electrochemical Kinetic Profiling of Aptamer‐Antigen Recognition in Clinical Samples and Machine Learning

P Sen, Z Zhang, S Sakib, J Gu, W Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐precision viral detection at point of need with clinical samples plays a pivotal role in
the diagnosis of infectious diseases and the control of a global pandemic. However, the …

Diagnostic performance of GenBody COVID-19 rapid antigen test for laboratory and non-laboratory medical professionals in real practice: A retrospective study

PC Lin, CJ Huang, YM Lu, HL Huang, ZY Wu… - Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Point-of-care tests for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) antigen detection have been
widely used for rapid diagnosis in various settings. However, research on the diagnostic …

Aptamers as Insights for Targeting SARS-CoV-2

S Karadeniz Saygılı, A Szymanowska… - Biologics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) continues to be a
major cause of high mortality in the world. Despite many therapeutic approaches having …

Rapid quantitative detection system constructed via photonic PCR based on the photothermal effect of NH2-MWCNTs/TiO2

X Zhou, X Yi, Z Liang, J Zhang, G Li, Y Tang, K Zhou… - Vacuum, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, the photothermal effect of aminomodified MWCNTs/TiO 2/SiO 2/PDMS
nanocomposites was utilized as a photothermal substrate to replace the metal heating block …

SGS: SqueezeNet-guided Gaussian-kernel SVM for COVID-19 Diagnosis

F Shi, J Wang, V Govindaraj - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2024 - Springer
The ongoing global pandemic has underscored the importance of rapid and reliable
identification of COVID-19 cases to enable effective disease management and control …