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 ...

“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 ...

Genetic testing can be a fearful, daunting, overwhelming, exciting, or joyful experience. In many cases, the emotions of people who pursue genetic testing can be described with more than just one of ...

Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test ...

The fully automated PCR-based testing system will be used in microbiology and virology labs to aid the detection of viral and bacterial causes of infectious diseases.

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security, PCR ...

With more of us interacting with others for the first time in a long time, many of us are considering having some antigen tests to hand at home due to the recent rise in Covid-19 case numbers. The ...

Infectious diseases expert Dr Eoghan de Barra has called on the Government to make a decision now about using antigen tests as a means of identifying Covid cases, as PCR testing capacity has been ...