Rutgers is seeking blood donations from people who survived the coronavirus to potentially help save the lives of those still currently battling COVID-19. Rutgers doctors at University Hospital in Newark are hoping that antibodies found in the plasma of those...
Federal health officials have granted an emergency use authorization for a coronavirus test relying on saliva samples that was developed by a Rutgers University-backed entity. The newly authorized test, which requires a person with coronavirus symptoms to spit into a...
University Hospital and New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) are, through their joint FDA-approved convalescent plasma program, collecting plasma donations from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and infusing it into patients still struggling to fight off the...
A bedrock of immunology is, if a virus infects you, and you fight off the infection, you develop an immunity to it for some time, even if you had mild symptoms. School of Public Health professor Vince Silenzio is among the experts who explain what is—and isn’t—known...
