Group testing

Aegis Launches COVID-19 Testing Program for Schools

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

to help keep schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic through pooled testing.

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to help keep schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic through pooled testing.
This testing program was designed to be simple for schools to use while reducing costs and increasing access to testing.
to make ongoing testing easy for teachers and students, so schools can safely and confidently remain open.
Aegis tests and reports each pool, and follow-up testing is recommended for each student or staff in a positive pool.

Molecular Testing Labs Partners With Concentric By Ginkgo To Provide Pooled COVID-19 Testing For K-12 Schools Across The Country

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Plants, Taxa, COVID-19 testing, Ginkgo, Group testing

b'VANCOUVER, Wash., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Vancouver, Washington-based Molecular Testing Labs ("Molecular") announced today that it has partnered with Boston-based Concentric by Ginkgo, the public health and biosecurity effort at Ginkgo Bioworks ("Ginkgo"), the organism company, to offer pooled COVID-19 testing for schools across the country.\nGinkgo is the country\'s largest provider of COVID-19 testing for K-12 schools, offering pooled testing at over 800 schools across more than a dozen states.

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b'VANCOUVER, Wash., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Vancouver, Washington-based Molecular Testing Labs ("Molecular") announced today that it has partnered with Boston-based Concentric by Ginkgo, the public health and biosecurity effort at Ginkgo Bioworks ("Ginkgo"), the organism company, to offer pooled COVID-19 testing for schools across the country.\nGinkgo is the country\'s largest provider of COVID-19 testing for K-12 schools, offering pooled testing at over 800 schools across more than a dozen states.
Molecular Testing Labs has revolutionized access to convenient and affordable testing and has designed a proprietary information system capable of monitoring patient specimens for adherence to medical testing policies.
In addition to traditional labs, Molecular Testing Labs has pioneered unique distribution and specimen collection methods that open access to medical testing where geographic, financial, and stigma barriers once created gaps in care.
Molecular Testing Labs takes pride in setting itselfapart on the principles of innovation, integrity, and partnership.

World Back to Work's COVID 19 RT-PCR POOLED TESTING Option Helps Reduce Cost and Provides Rapid Results

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Laboratory techniques, Natural sciences, Molecular biology, Branches of biology, Biology, Biotechnology, Polymerase chain reaction, Amplifiers, Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, Group testing, COVID-19 testing

Coronavirus Pooled Testing employs a specimen pooling technique, using a proprietary RT-PCR molecular diagnostic test for testing larger groups and populations.

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Coronavirus Pooled Testing employs a specimen pooling technique, using a proprietary RT-PCR molecular diagnostic test for testing larger groups and populations.
Our Pooled Testing option can be as much as 75% less than traditional PCR testing, making it far more accessible.
Our Pooled Testing option can be as much as 75% less than traditional PCR testing, making it far more accessible.
With 24-hour lab turnaround times, our Pooled Testing helps prevent continued spread that can occur with tests requiring longer processing times for results."

Matrix Medical Network and Berkeley Data Ventures Collaborate to Make Mass COVID-19 Testing More Accessible

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

COVID-19 testing, Group testing, Student's t-test, Research methods, Tests, Scientific method

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matrix Medical Network has partnered with Berkeley Data Ventures to improve the availability and ease of COVID-19 testing by combining the power of machine learning and pooled testing.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matrix Medical Network has partnered with Berkeley Data Ventures to improve the availability and ease of COVID-19 testing by combining the power of machine learning and pooled testing.
Frequent testing, for example at a school or workplace, is both costly and a real challenge given limited testing capacity, said Dr. Daniel Castillo, Chief Medical Officer, Matrix Medical Network.
Our partnership with Berkeley Data Ventures combines our clinical knowledge and their machine learning expertise to tackle this problem by establishing new and smarter protocols that allow more frequent testing.
The algorithms devised by Berkeley Data Ventures leverage key data to identify the optimal testing strategy by assessing individual prevalence and correlation risk to show who would, and who would not, benefit from pooled testing.

LabCorp Receives Authorization for COVID-19 Sample Pooling

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Saturday, July 25, 2020

Pooling methods test groups of individuals efficiently and with high quality, while increasing our overall testing capacity.

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Pooling methods test groups of individuals efficiently and with high quality, while increasing our overall testing capacity.
The demand for testing continues to increase and we are committed to finding innovative solutions to ensure testing is available.
If there is a positive sample in the pool, LabCorp can identify the individual positive sample in the pool using patterns detected by its robotic testing platform.
Specimens with low viral loads may not be detected in sample pools due to decreased sensitivity of pooled testing.