The research, published in the journal Nature Medicine, noted that the three fast-spreading variants of the coronavirus first reported in S...

Antibodies are proteins made by the immune system that recognise and bind to virus antigens.

Roche said the test can provide quantitative evidence of the presence and levels of antibodies that develop in response to the vaccine cand...

Scientists have found that some antibodies, created by the immune system during infection with common cold coronaviruses, can also target t...

Genetic, antigen and antibody tests are the 3 types that used to determine Covid diagnosis.

Antibodies are markers of infection, and testing for them helps health officials see how widely the virus has spread. Until now, most tests...

Antibody test is not for diagnosis but shows whether a person was infected. It is used as disease surveillance tool to get an idea of the s...

The immune system has multiple ways to fight the coronavirus.

Patients who recover from the novel coronavirus may have an antibody response that makes them immune to the deadly virus only for a few mon...

Taking to Twitter, Rane said he had requested the ICMR and Civil Aviation Ministry to permit coronavirus antibody testing for passengers, w...

Studies are still underway to determine what antibody level would be needed for immunity.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the top agency dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, said on Monday it planned to return th...

More than a dozen importers continue to hold licences to buy coronavirus antibody test kits from two Chinese companies that the Indian Coun...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the results of the test kits vary from place to place and "it can't be relied upon".

With reports that the rapid antibody tests may miss infections and can falsely produce negative results in infected patients, ICMR is study...

These kits, also known as serological testing kits, are not meant for early diagnosis or detection of the disease, said Raman Gangakhedkar,...

ICMR said in an interim advisory that antibody tests can be carried out in hotspots – zones suspected to have widespread prevalence of the ...