“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 ...

With fears of a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic this winter, the government plans to offer free PCR tests to anyone who fears for their health, even if they show no symptoms. It will include free ...

TOKYO -- Kawasaki Heavy Industries has developed an innovative PCR testing system controlled by robots that it is aiming to set up in downtown areas and airports by March next year, Nikkei has learned ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been offering free PCR tests since Dec. 25 for Tokyo residents with no symptoms who are worried about being infected with the coronavirus, at PCR testing ...

KYOTO--A subsidiary of precision equipment maker Shimadzu Corp. is offering to perform polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on raw sewage running from buildings to more quickly track locations where ...

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 ...

Many people across the UK will be hoping to have a holiday abroad this summer, but many countries require Brits to take a PCR test before they can enter the country. On Monday Spain announced that ...

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 ...

The first part of the series examined the correlations between TV coverage on COVID–19 and social media, which showed that television repeatedly reported stories related to PCR tests for an extended ...