Items Tagged ‘covid-19’
September 9, 2020
Mayo Clinic research advances diagnostics to lead COVID-19 pandemic response
By Susan Murphy 
When COVID-19 spread across the U.S. in early March, Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory (ADL) urgently responded. Lab spaces were transitioned, staff reassigned and funding approvals were fast-tracked. Its goals were to accelerate research, development, translation and implementation of novel tests in order to discover life-saving treatments and diagnostics. “ADL houses a lab structure for […]
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August 4, 2020
COVID-19 “Live” Virus Research In a Specialized Lab
By Sara Tiner 
To solve the challenges presented by COVID-19, it’s important to look to the past. History shows that collaboration is the way forward when uncovering secrets of an emerging virus. It is vital for many reasons, a key one being safety. Only a few labs can safely handle a “live,” meaning infectious, sample. No one knows […]
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July 14, 2020
Mayo Clinic COVID-19 research news
By Susan Murphy
By Dana Sparks Contact tracing and COVID-19: What is it and how does it work? I’ve heard about contact tracing being done during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is it and how does it work? Answer: Contact tracing is a tool that can help slow the spread of infectious diseases, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In communities using […]
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July 6, 2020
By Susan Murphy
By Dana Sparks As COVID-19 continues to cause concern and consume people’s lives across the globe, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group, offers some insights and answers on the status of the pandemic. Scientists around the world are working feverishly on vaccines, what’s the status of vaccine research? The U.S. Food […]
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June 29, 2020
Mayo Clinic COVID-19 modeling for patients, communities
By Susan Murphy
By Elizabeth Zimmermann| Discovery’s Edge Building predictions based on a set of variables, an effort called modeling, has gotten a lot of airtime during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding both the virus and the disease, including how it spreads and its impacts on population health, guides advice to the public on how to stay safe. At […]
June 12, 2020
Who should get COVID-19 testing?
Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a clinical microbiologist at Mayo Clinic, acknowledges that there seems to be a lot of confusion with the general public when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Terms like viral, molecular, serology and antibodies, and convalescent plasma have sprung up in everyday language when talking about COVID-19 — but do you really need to know […]
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June 12, 2020
Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapies
By Ginger Plumbo A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by researchers in Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory explores whether people gain immunity after being infected, and can fight off the novel virus if it comes back. The new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody test supports the national Expanded Access Program for Convalescent Plasma and […]
June 8, 2020
Unanswered Questions Drive Convalescent Plasma Research
By Susan Murphy
By Sara Tiner On Saturday, March 14, in southwest Wisconsin, a woman was working in her yard, raking and clearing the first spring weeds. She coughed a bit during the day, and felt some achiness in her lower back, some fatigue. It was in the high 30s that day, but she was warm when she […]
May 18, 2020
Mayo Clinic COVID-19 research news
By Susan Murphy
Early indicators: Investigational convalescent plasma is safe for patients with COVID-19 Mayo Clinic and collaborators have reported safety data on the first 5,000 hospitalized patients transfused with investigational convalescent plasma as part of the Food and Drug Administration’s national Expanded Access Program (EAP) for COVID-19. The early indicators suggest experimental convalescent plasma is safe in treating severely ill […]
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April 13, 2020
Mayo Clinic researchers provide updates, advice on COVID-19 pandemic
By Susan Murphy
By Mayo Clinic News Network Mayo Clinic doctors, researchers and staff are doing extraordinary work in the response against the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is the latest update: 100 days of COVID-19: Mayo Clinic expert discusses how far we’ve come and what lies ahead It has been 100 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) was first notified about […]
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