{"id":3032,"date":"2021-12-01T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:57:07","slug":"how-x-rays-could-make-reliable-rapid-covid-19-tests-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/01\/how-x-rays-could-make-reliable-rapid-covid-19-tests-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"How X-Rays Could Make Reliable, Rapid COVID-19 Tests a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A study led by Michal Hammel and Curtis D. Hodge suggests that a highly sensitive lateral flow assay \u2013 the same type of device used in home pregnancy tests \u2013 could be developed using pairs of rigid antibodies that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein. Such a test would only require a small drop of mucus or saliva, could give results in 15 minutes, and could detect a COVID-19 infection one day before the onset of symptoms. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/19420862.2021.1905978\" target=\"_blank\">Their work was published in the journal mABs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Michal Hammel and Curtis D. Hodge suggests that a highly sensitive lateral flow assay \u2013 the same type of device used in home pregnancy tests \u2013&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/01\/how-x-rays-could-make-reliable-rapid-covid-19-tests-a-reality\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/als-enable.lbl.gov\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}