Researchers often call the polymerase chain reaction test – known as the PCR test – "the gold standard" for detecting the COVID-19 virus. The test is considered highly reliable and effective, and it ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits for COVID-19 use what’s known as gene cloning – not reproductive cloning – to detect the presence or absence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but social media posts ...

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, or CDC, tweeted that "there’s a 10% chance" that people’s PCR tests were sent to laboratories across the country for genomic sequencing analysis.

Researchers have built an RT-PCR platform that gives results in 23 minutes that match the longer laboratory-based tests -- faster than other PCR tests on the market. It can be adapted to test for a ...

For Rachel Robles, getting diagnosed with Long COVID was an uphill battle. She caught the virus in March 2020, when nearly nothing was known about its long-term effects and testing was inaccessible ...

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Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics, both at Columbia University, New York, NY, have teamed up to develop a low-cost, photonics-based portable platform that gives RT-PCR results ...

Recall, if you dare, life in December 2020. America had just approved Covid-19 vaccines for use, but most of us wouldn’t get a shot for months. Instead, amid the second surge of coronavirus cases, ...

This story was first published by Source New Mexico. New Mexico is preparing to no longer provide easily available, community-wide, free diagnostic testing for COVID, worrying community health ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. You’ve been exposed to COVID and are starting to get symptoms. But after a couple of days of testing with rapid ...