After burning bright during the COVID-19 pandemic, Siemens Healthineers is now planning to shutter a relatively small unit within its larger diagnostics enterprise that had focused on molecular ...

Molecular tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation.

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 ...

If you had COVID-19 symptoms in 2020, you probably would have masked up and braved a visit to a laboratory, doctor’s office, or clinic to get a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. A health care ...

There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Each method is best for a different stage of COVID-19 infection. Used in sequence, all three methods ...

PCR technology is a molecular diagnostics technology that detects target nucleic acids by amplifying the DNA amount. It has brought marked progress in the life sciences field since its development in ...

Patients in rural communities often lack timely access to innovative infectious disease testing because diagnostic laboratories are located far away. Long transport times and logistical barriers delay ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — When you head to the doctor's office, some of our local clinics now have a special test that can tell if you have a viral or bacterial infection in just 15 minutes. Physician's ...

Covering both mosquito-borne diseases and emerging respiratory pathogens, Anbio continues to advance point-of-care diagnostics for timely outbreak detection worldwide. FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 08, ...

The U.K. has been swabbing throats—in addition to noses—since the beginning of the pandemic. Should the U.S. be doing the same? Depends who you ask. One Medical wants to make sure you’re COVID-free ...