Publications by authors named "Lukas Pm Kremer"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, presents significant public health challenges, emphasizing the need for effective testing methods.
- A new testing method called reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) shows promise for detecting SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA and requires less complex equipment compared to traditional RT-qPCR testing.
- In tests conducted on 768 pharyngeal swab samples, the RT-LAMP assay demonstrated high sensitivity (97.5%) and specificity (99.7%), with an innovative swab-to-RT-LAMP protocol achieving good specificity (99.5%) but slightly lower sensitivity (86%).
Ageing is a feature of nearly all known organisms and, by its connection to survival, appears to trade off with fecundity. However, in some organisms such as in queens of social insects, this negative relation appears reversed and individuals live long and reproduce much. Since new experimental techniques, transcriptomes and genomes of many social insects have recently become available, a comparison of these data in a phylogenetic framework becomes feasible.
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