This collaboration combines the technological resources of both companies and will apply these to one of the world’s largest cohorts of Barrett’s esophagus patients with clinical outcome data, including patients who progressed to esophageal cancer.

Aegea Biotechnologies notes XPRIZE is renowned for its worldwide competitions to solve humanity’s most important challenges. The $5 million, XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition was launched this summer to accelerate the development of high-quality COVID-19 testing that is affordable, easy to use, and that has a fast turnaround time.

ARUP Laboratories will perform the test only on saliva specimens collected using an ARUP collection kit with a healthcare provider present. ARUP validated the test using its kit on high-throughput instruments, and cannot perform it on other saliva specimens without jeopardizing quick turnaround times, said Adam Barker, Ph.D., director of ARUP’s new COVID-19 Rapid Response Lab.