COVID-19 Insights
RT- PCR, the gold standard in CoViD-19 diagnosis: the most common pitfalls and their interpretations
The gold standard for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis is the Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, aka RT-PCR or qRT-PCR. This technique has been introduced in 1983 (Saiki et al. 1985) and nowadays is widely used in the diagnosis of many pathologies, from infectious...
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Da uno spin-off Unibo nasce un test rapido per individuare le varianti del coronavirus
Un kit diagnostico RT-PCR grazie a cui individuare in tempi rapidi le diverse varianti del coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: quella inglese, ormai prevalente, ma anche quelle sudafricana, brasiliana e nigeriana. “Gli studi di validazione realizzati hanno mostrato un livello di...
Events & Awards
OaCP has been selected for the China Overseas Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
OaCP has been selected for the China Overseas Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition promoted by Wuhan City. The competition is hosted by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), People's Government of Hubei Province, and organized by: Hubei...
OaCP
The OaCP new kit for COVID19 variants detection will be used for the routine detection of the variants in Italy by the CQRC in Palermo, Sicily (Prof.ssa Di Gaudio).
The OaCP new kit for COVID19 variants detection will be used first in Italy by the CQRC in Palermo, Sicily (Prof.ssa Di Gaudio) for the routine detection of the variants. Working to make the variants detection a routine test for all of the labs and not an expensive,...