Avoiding the Immunopathology Pitfalls of a COVID-19 Vaccine
In the second of a three-part series on COVID-19 vaccines, we explore the potential challenges in stimulating safe vaccine responses and outline the role that diagnostics will play in guiding their development. Rogue Responses Antibodies play a crucial role in...
Designing for Differentiation: Why We Need Highly Specific Diagnostics for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Assessment of vaccine-induced immune responses in clinical trials will require highly specific diagnostic assays to ensure safety. This blog was originally published on Clinical Lab Manager. The Vaccine Race Vaccines are the most effective means of preventing...
Why We Need Antigen and Antibody Tests for COVID-19
RT-PCR is the workhorse of viral diagnosis and has been invaluable in COVID-19 case confirmation and isolation guidance. However, while fast and sensitive, PCR suffers from some inherent drawbacks that limit it to diagnosis during the acute phase of infection. To...
The Why and How of Protein Conjugation
In this blog, Lead Assay Development Scientist, Toni Ertl discusses the basics of protein conjugation and introduces our new range of conjugation kits for the labelling of antigens and antibodies. Detecting Proteins If you’re trying to detect or measure the presence...