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Dr. Veena Jones was on her morning commute from her home in Menlo Park to her office at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto when she learned of lab test results that might have caused her to swerve off on El Camino Real if she hadn’t already been driving cautiously in the slow lane.…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home saliva collection test for COVID-19, which people could use to sample their own saliva and send it into a lab for results.Developed by RUCDR Infinite Biologics, a biorepository based at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the test received…

Zoom-bombed with pornographic images and racial and sexual insults directed at Modise.The meeting, using the platform Zoom, was stopped, and was continued minutes later on Microsoft Teams."I have my doubts about Zoom," Modise said, in the second part of the meeting.She had previously also expressed concern about the platform's security.She said she didn't want to…

Dog tests positive for COVID-19 The pet dog of a family taking part in a study at Duke University is apparently the first in the U.S. to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Chris Woods, the lead investigator of the Molecular and Epidemiological Study of Suspected Infection (MESSI), confirmed in a statement…

Quinton de Kock (Gallo Images) Earlier this year Quinton de Kock was handed the responsibility of captaining the Proteas' ODI and T20 sides on a permanent basis.The 27-year-old's first assignment was to lead a new-look South African side against reigning Cricket World Cup champions England.Coming off a 3-1 Test series defeat (under Faf de Plessis'…