FINALISTS SELECTED IN $6 MILLION XPRIZE RAPID COVID TESTING COMPETITION TO HELP RESTART GLOBAL ECONOMY
XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, today announced the 20 finalist teams advancing in the $6 million XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing prize, a competition to create newer, higher standards of COVID-19 testing to help society safely return to everyday activities. Finalist teams were selected out of a pool of 219 semifinalists following judging of a detailed questionnaire pertaining to each team’s qualifications and blind proficiency testing.
Searching the world’s biobanks for cancer’s weak spots
Analysis of preserved clinical samples could reveal cancer’s vulnerabilities. More efficient and reliable DNA and RNA extraction is critical for speeding the hunt.
Purigen Launches New Extraction and Purification Kit that Enables Scientists to Maximize Usable DNA from Limited Biological Samples
Automated Ionic® Cells to Pure DNA Low Input Kit consistently recovers up to twice the amount of high-quality nucleic acid from as few as 10 cultured or sorted cells