COVID was all we could think about. Today, we'd rather forget about lockdowns, testing lines and social distancing. But the ...

Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, the gold standard in testing for the disease has been a nuclear-derived technique: real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction, or real-time ...

Early in the pandemic, when someone walked into a clinic with a possible case of COVID-19, a nurse or doctor would stick a long swab up their nose to take a sample. They would then ship it to a ...

The company plans to submit the next iteration of the Co-Dx PCR COVID-19 ... next generation of test kits and instruments across all tests on the at-home and point-of-care platform.

testing anyone who has symptoms of Covid. Another choice facing schools is the type of test to offer: either polymerase chain reaction, also called a PCR test, or a rapid test. Both are done by ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has given Emergency Use Authorization to a fifth saliva-based test for COVID-19. The low-cost and noninvasive ... In addition, the equipment and reagents needed to ...

A positive PCR test for the coronavirus means that the virus is very likely present; on the other hand, there’s a decent chance that a negative test could be wrong. Although there is ...

Because RSV, influenza, and COVID-19 share symptoms, accurate testing is needed to distinguish one from the other. This CE-IVD marked multiplex PCR test is specifically designed to detect and ...

The Health Ministry has announced that the real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR is the ‘gold standard’ frontline test for COVID-19. This came into effect after ...