Rutgers professor who helped create coronavirus saliva test dies
A Rutgers research professor whose work led to the creation of the first coronavirus saliva-based test died unexpectedly on Saturday, the university announced Tuesday.
The cause of death for Andrew Brooks, 51, who was a research professor in Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Genetics, was not released by the university.
Brooks’ saliva-based test received FDA emergency approval last spring and has played a significant role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, school officials said. Since that time, more than four million of the tests, which were the…
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