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Advance your COVID-19 research with positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 samples
31 May 2020Georgina Wynne Hughes
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Scientists and researchers from across the globe are working hard to develop tests, treatments, and vaccines for COVID-19. The team at Tissue Solutions remains committed to helping support scientists’ vital research into COVID-19.
They have been working closely with their sources and collection sites to ensure the safe and ethical collection of COVID-19 samples, as well as increasing sample availability by processing whole blood into plasma and serum samples.
They can now provide a broader range of COVID-19 positive and negative samples from hospitalized donors, remnant specimens, or collection sites:
- Cryopreserved plasma, serum, and PBMCs from positive and convalescent donors
- Fresh whole blood from positive donors
- RNA extracted from nasal and throat swabs from positive donors
- Diagnostic remnants from positive and negative donors
- Stool samples from positive donors
- Nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs from positive and negative donors
- Saliva collections from positive donors
- Serial collections – 4 times points (matched serum, NP swab, DBS, saliva)
- Post-mortem tissue from positive donors
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