“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

Many people will have experienced being unwell with an unknown infection and having to undergo multiple tests to determine the culprit. This sequential process of elimination can be time-consuming and ...

The spread of Covid-19 is having a grave impact on our society. For example, in the Cabinet Office's "Quarterly Estimates of Jan.-March 2020 GDP (Second Preliminary)" the real GDP growth rate for the ...

India developed a home-grown RT-PCR testing kit for Monkeypox, a virus recently declared a global health concern by WHO. The Siemens Healthineers' 'IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay' received ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . University CMV testing among newborns is not common. In Minnesota, the first state with universal CMV testing, a ...

COVID-19 has been around for the best part of a year, and medical technology has been racing to keep pace with the rise in infections and viral mutations. Until recently, unless you were presenting ...

Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) demand rigorous sterility testing. Yet traditional growth-based methods require 14 days for results, creating a critical bottleneck for short shelf-life ...

When SARS-CoV-2 reached the United States in late January 2020, Labcorp immediately began development of an RT-PCR test to aid in detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 in infected patients. As a result ...

A new biotechnology company in McKinney has ambitions to become the world’s first fully integrated platform for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing — the same technology behind a common COVID-19 ...

Defra is to expand the use of polymerase chain reaction testing for rapid detection of bovine TB infection in cattle herds following success in the first phase. Following the success of the tests in ...