Described herein is a method of preparing a bifunctional assay surface. In particular, a method is provided for preparing an assay surface that includes a primary reagent and a secondary reagent. In one aspect, the primary and secondary reagents are immobilized on the assay surface by different surface chemistries. In one aspect, a method is provided for preparing an assay surface that includes a proteinaceous primary reagent and a thiol-containing secondary reagent. In one aspect, a method is provided for preparing an assay surface that includes a capture-target hybrid and a thiol-containing secondary reagent.

The disclosure provides compositions and methods for identifying and/or quantifying a binding member in a sample.

The present invention relates to a system capable of performing simple and rapid inspection of an antigen equivalent to the immune chromatographic method with accuracy good as a PCR method. An embodiment relates to a novel fluorescence counting system for quantifying viruses or antibodies in an analyte which comprises an unit of providing an antigen or antibody phase solidified substrate by an aggregation method with quantum crystals, an unit for making a labeling liquor and labeling a virus or an antibody to be measured in the analyte by an antigen-antibody method, an unit of exciting the fluorescently labeled virus or antibody by a surface plasmon excitation method, and an unit of counting fluorescent points in an excited fluorescent screen to quantify the virus or antibody in the analyte.

Disclosed are recombinant proteins, compositions, vectors, kits, data analyses, and methods for inducing an immune response against, or detecting exposure to, SARS-CoV-2. In particular, the compositions, vectors, kits, data analyses and methods may be utilized to immunize subjects against disease associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection or to protect subjects from SARS-CoV-2 infection. In some embodiments, the recombinant proteins are useful in the production of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and for the detection of exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

The invention enables efficient, rapid, and sensitive enumeration of living cells by detecting microscopic colonies derived from in situ cell division using large area imaging. Microbial enumeration tests based on the invention address an important problem in clinical and industrial microbiology—the long time needed for detection in traditional tests—while retaining key advantages of the traditional methods based on microbial culture. Embodiments of the invention include non-destructive aseptic methods for detecting cellular microcolonies without labeling reagents. These methods allow for the generation of pure cultures which can be used for microbial identification and determination of antimicrobial resistance.

An embodiment provides a method for detection of viral antigen for the COVID-19 virus, including: obtaining a body fluid from a patient; introducing the body fluid to at least one binding antibody, wherein the at least one binding antibody binds to an antigen of the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein and comprises an indicator; forming a viral antigen—antibody complex; and determining the presence of the viral antigen—antibody complex. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Disclosed are methods for identifying desired members from a display libraries, including bacteriophage display libraries. Display library members can be amplified in the presence of a target compound so that cycles of selection can be rapidly completed.

Disclosed are methods, devices and systems for the isolation and detection of biomolecules from a sample. The embodiments, detection of such biomolecules provides for detection of microorganisms. For example, disclosed are methods, devices and systems that use bacteriophage-based amplification of the signal in detection of bacteria and other microorganisms. The devices, systems and methods of the invention may allow for the detection of certain biomolecules peptides and ions in real time using minute amounts of sample.

This invention provides immunogenic compositions comprising an immune stimulant and an respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) oligopeptide or an unglycosylated RSV polypeptide. The RSV oligopeptides are shown in SEQ ID NO: 3-33. The unglycosylated RSV polypeptide may consist essentially of the ectodomain of an RSV G protein, such as that shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the ectodomain of an RSV F protein such as the ectodomain of the F protein shown in SEQ ID NO: 39.

Antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically bind to human metapneumovirus (hMPV) F protein and neutralize hMPV are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors and host cells are also provided. The disclosed antibodies, antigen binding fragments, nucleic acids and vectors can be used, for example, to inhibit an hMPV infection or detect a hMPV infection.