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Chris Lo 8 April 2021 (Last Updated April 8th, 2021 12:37) After more than a year since the emergence of Covid-19, the global road to recovery will be a long and challenging one. What are the key lessons that life sciences companies can take away from the world’s pandemic year? While the startlingly rapid development and rollout of vaccines has brought the prospect of a light at the end of a very dark tunnel, the world still has some way to go before the SARS-CoV-2 roller coaster begins to plateau. Credit: Shutterstock Shar...

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To test or not to test for Covid-19? This question has plagued many as the World Health Organisation urged governments earlier this year to implement widespread testing of its citizens to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. According to an article published in Medical Device Network, the majority of tests currently being done can be divided into polymerise chain reaction (PCR) or serologic tests and neither of them are 100% perfect. A PCR test uses a swab to take a sample from a patient’s nose or throat and, although it doesn’t detect the virus itself, it detects the presence of ge...