HIT Consultant

PCR is the Gold Standard of Testing. How Can It Be Improved?

Most of us have been tested for COVID-19 over the past few years. If that’s true of you, you know the routine: you go to a testing site, give your sample, a medical professional sends it to a ...
Business Wire

Neelyx Labs announces immediate capacity for rapid monkeypox PCR testing

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amid rising concerns about a lack of testing to stop the spread of the monkeypox virus, Neelyx Labs, an independent diagnostics firm based in the Chicago area, announced they ...
University of Hawaii

How much profit are private labs earning from PCR testing?

How the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm in which private laboratories can earn huge profits from PCR testing while potentially impacting health care ...

Co-Diagnostics Highlights PCR Platform Capabilities for Potential Plague Detection

Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX) ("Co-Dx" or the "Company"), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented ...

What is PCR? | A gentle explanation from the laboratory on the mechanism of amplifying and examining DNA

Even if you know the name "PCR test"...With the COVID-19 pandemic, the term "PCR test" has become completely familiar.However ...
Nature

How efficient, multi-pathogen PCR testing could transform diagnostics

“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 Conversation

Here’s another type of COVID test to get your head around. But is this new home kit worth the cost?

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we’re familiar with. It also promises a ...
BIOENGINEER

Rapid PCR Testing Guided by Pharmacists Cuts Antibiotic Overuse in COPD Flare-Ups

A prospective study in North Macedonia found that pharmacist-interpreted multiplex PCR testing enabled antibiotic ...

Point-of-Care Testing, Falling Prices and PCR Threaten the Immunoassay Lab Model: What Diagnostics Leaders Must Do Next

Forecasts by application, technology and care setting show where hospital and outpatient lab spending is shifting, with strategies from 64 players including Roche, Abbott and Siemens ...
Lab Manager

PCR Biosystems Continues to Scale Up Operations to Ensure Ongoing Availability of COVID-19 Test Reagents

LONDON, UK — April 1, 2020 — PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, are continuing to scale up operations to ensure the critical enzyme mix for COVID-19 tests remain available to the UK and global ...
Lab Manager

FDA-Cleared Multiplex GI PCR Test Expands Molecular Options for Gastrointestinal Pathogen Detection

The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new multiplex gastrointestinal PCR assay designed to streamline the detection of common diarrhea-causing pathogens from a single patient sample. The ...
Medical Xpress

New COVID test promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we're familiar with. It also promises a ...