“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PCR-based bacterial and fungal detection helps scientists efficiently analyze the sterility of their cell cultures, improving Mycoplasma testing and beyond. Scientists turn to PCR-based methods that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- Japanese manufacturers are scrambling to develop and produce medical equipment, protective gear and testing apparatus in preparation for a possible second wave of novel coronavirus infections ...