Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...

“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 ...

Compact genetic testing device could be used to detect a range of pathogens, or conditions including cancer. Compact genetic testing device created for Covid-19 could be used to detect a range of ...

A lab technician looks hard at a 7-cm-tall resinous container, opens the lid ever so carefully and sucks up a liquid with a syringe. Then, 0.1 milliliter of the liquid is placed in a different ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening to prevent the spread of infections in high-risk settings.

Overall, the microfluidics system is much smaller and less complex than a PCR machine. If this concept is brought to market as a product, its compact size could easily fit in a researcher’s lab, ...