sherpa Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Things are happening. The University of Virginia may have developed a barrier breaking test that is way quicker and cheaper. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A research team at the University of Virginia says it might have found a new way to detect COVID-19. Dr. Ben Orsburn’s team is using a device nearly every lab in the world has on hand, and could potentially diagnose patients within hours of them becoming infected. “The reason that we decided to make our data public, or to make our message public, was when it occurred to us that basically, every hospital in the world these days and every university has a mass spectrometer of some kind,” Orsburn said. Dr. Orsburn is at the forefront of a new method that may detect coronavirus far faster than traditional DNA testing. The theory is that certain proteins in the virus might appear before a patient even realizes they have been infected. Orsburn says this idea was first proposed during the SARS 2003 outbreak, though the field wasn’t developed enough at the time to test effectively. “The understanding is that these viruses are similar and that an early detection method could detect the nucleocapsid protein in SARS would be at least there is a nucleocapsid protein in this virus as well.” Orsburn’s theory found a home in labs in China and Germany. “Probably within 36 hours or so, we actually saw real proteomics, real protein mass spectrometry data being released by a German group that and their data very strongly mimics our model,” the doctor said. “You see this nucleocapsid protein just go up in abundance really early infection.” COVID-19 proteins appear in infected samples within hours, and can be detected days before a patient would even begin showing symptoms. Work is underway to make this detection method widely available. The team is already working with a company in New York to potentially make rapid sample preparation methods more easily accessible nation wide. Other labs are building similar detection methods based on the theory." https://www.nbc29.com/2020/03/17/uva-researchers-may-have-found-faster-way-detect-covid-/ 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 38 minutes ago, sherpa said: Things are happening. The University of Virginia may have developed a barrier breaking test that is way quicker and cheaper. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A research team at the University of Virginia says it might have found a new way to detect COVID-19. Dr. Ben Orsburn’s team is using a device nearly every lab in the world has on hand, and could potentially diagnose patients within hours of them becoming infected. “The reason that we decided to make our data public, or to make our message public, was when it occurred to us that basically, every hospital in the world these days and every university has a mass spectrometer of some kind,” Orsburn said. Dr. Orsburn is at the forefront of a new method that may detect coronavirus far faster than traditional DNA testing. The theory is that certain proteins in the virus might appear before a patient even realizes they have been infected. Orsburn says this idea was first proposed during the SARS 2003 outbreak, though the field wasn’t developed enough at the time to test effectively. “The understanding is that these viruses are similar and that an early detection method could detect the nucleocapsid protein in SARS would be at least there is a nucleocapsid protein in this virus as well.” Orsburn’s theory found a home in labs in China and Germany. “Probably within 36 hours or so, we actually saw real proteomics, real protein mass spectrometry data being released by a German group that and their data very strongly mimics our model,” the doctor said. “You see this nucleocapsid protein just go up in abundance really early infection.” COVID-19 proteins appear in infected samples within hours, and can be detected days before a patient would even begin showing symptoms. Work is underway to make this detection method widely available. The team is already working with a company in New York to potentially make rapid sample preparation methods more easily accessible nation wide. Other labs are building similar detection methods based on the theory." https://www.nbc29.com/2020/03/17/uva-researchers-may-have-found-faster-way-detect-covid-/ If they can identify proteins that truly are specific to this virus, that's awesome. The question is, how many false positives would this test produce? If they can keep those to minimal levels, cool. Bring it to the public. Wonder if this is the swab test that 45 was discussing in his address just now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 38 minutes ago, sherpa said: Things are happening. The University of Virginia may have developed a barrier breaking test that is way quicker and cheaper. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A research team at the University of Virginia says it might have found a new way to detect COVID-19. Dr. Ben Orsburn’s team is using a device nearly every lab in the world has on hand, and could potentially diagnose patients within hours of them becoming infected. “The reason that we decided to make our data public, or to make our message public, was when it occurred to us that basically, every hospital in the world these days and every university has a mass spectrometer of some kind,” Orsburn said. Dr. Orsburn is at the forefront of a new method that may detect coronavirus far faster than traditional DNA testing. The theory is that certain proteins in the virus might appear before a patient even realizes they have been infected. Orsburn says this idea was first proposed during the SARS 2003 outbreak, though the field wasn’t developed enough at the time to test effectively. “The understanding is that these viruses are similar and that an early detection method could detect the nucleocapsid protein in SARS would be at least there is a nucleocapsid protein in this virus as well.” Orsburn’s theory found a home in labs in China and Germany. “Probably within 36 hours or so, we actually saw real proteomics, real protein mass spectrometry data being released by a German group that and their data very strongly mimics our model,” the doctor said. “You see this nucleocapsid protein just go up in abundance really early infection.” COVID-19 proteins appear in infected samples within hours, and can be detected days before a patient would even begin showing symptoms. Work is underway to make this detection method widely available. The team is already working with a company in New York to potentially make rapid sample preparation methods more easily accessible nation wide. Other labs are building similar detection methods based on the theory." https://www.nbc29.com/2020/03/17/uva-researchers-may-have-found-faster-way-detect-covid-/ Our country always responds to a crisis once an "all hands on deck" call goes out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Excellent news if true. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince88 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Has anyone seen any stats on use of this to treat here in the USA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 The most interesting part of the article was the reference to ‘traditional DNA testing’. I remember during the OJ trial when a DNA test was like landing a man on Jupiter! Amazing how all of this has progressed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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