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Exec Chat: Adaptive Biotechnologies Will Use T Cells To Spot Prior Infections, Including COVID-19

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

Adaptive chief medical officer Lance Baldo talked to Medtech Insight about the company's plans to detect prior infection using T-cells obtained from blood samples.

Adaptive Biotechnologies’ T-Detect Covid-19 test. Source: Adaptive Biotechnologies
Adaptive Biotechnologies’ T-Detect Covid-19 test. • Source: Adaptive Biotechnologies

As SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations are rolled out globally, acting as a light at the end of a rather bleak tunnel, doctors, government leaders and the public are asking themselves questions:

“How do we know the vaccine is working?”

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• By Natasha Barrow

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