On Jul. 2, 2020, Ceres Nanosciences and its collaborators at George Mason University announced they had have developed a Nanotrap particle method that significantly improves detection of SARS-CoV-2. In a preprint posted on Jun. 25, 2020, the teams described how Nanotrap particles enable a rapid method for capturing and concentrating heat-inactivated and infectious SARS-CoV-2.