Qing Yang
Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
Qing Yang, Some of the authors of this study (NRM, QY, CLP, SLS) are founders of Darwin Biosciences, who licenses the Saliva TwoStep assay described herein..
Nicholas R Meyerson
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
Nicholas R Meyerson, Some of the authors of this study (NRM, QY, CLP, SLS) are founders of Darwin Biosciences, who licenses the Saliva TwoStep assay described herein..
Stephen K Clark
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Camille L Paige
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
Camille L Paige, Some of the authors of this study (NRM, QY, CLP, SLS) are founders of Darwin Biosciences, who licenses the Saliva TwoStep assay described herein..
Will T Fattor
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Alison R Gilchrist
Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Arturo Barbachano-Guerrero
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Benjamin G Healy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Emma R Worden-Sapper
Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Sharon S Wu
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Denise Muhlrad
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Carolyn J Decker
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Tassa K Saldi
Integrated Physiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Erika Lasda
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Patrick Gonzales
Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Morgan R Fink
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Kimngan L Tat
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Cole R Hager
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Jack C Davis
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Christopher D Ozeroff
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Gloria R Brisson
Wardenburg Health Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Matthew B McQueen
Integrated Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Leslie A Leinwand
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Roy Parker
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
No competing interests declared.
Sara L Sawyer
Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Competing interests
Sara L Sawyer, Some of the authors of this study (NRM, QY, CLP, SLS) are founders of Darwin Biosciences, who licenses the Saliva TwoStep assay described herein.Senior editor, eLife.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (PDEP)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (PATH)
National Institutes of Health (DP1-DA-046108)
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Human subjects: This study was approved by the University of Colorado Boulder Institutional Review Board. Saliva samples for assay development were collected under protocol 20-0068. Adult participants were consented verbally and donated up to 2mL of whole saliva for use as a reagent in optimization and limit of detection experiments. Data on human subjects is aggregated from University of Colorado Boulder operational COVID-19 surveillance testing activities. For this reason, the research herein did not fall under IRB purview.
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