Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, testing for active infection has been a crucial tool to help to control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enabling the identification of infected individuals and ...

The COVID-19 tests in use today are laborious and complicated. They require a skilled professional to take samples, perform the reaction and analyze the results. Also, there is the need for dedicated ...

During the COVID-19 health emergency, two strategies for detecting coronavirus infections were commonly adopted around the world. Part of Nature Outlook: Medical diagnostics Initially, in countries ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has highlighted the shortcomings in emergency response globally and has driven a massive demand for in vitro diagnostic ...

It has been over a year since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, and in a month, it will be a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. At ...

US researchers have developed an innovative smartphone-based kit that can test saliva samples for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Early studies have found the cheap system is as ...

Each morning at 7, Brian Wolf, the fire chief of Racine, Wisconsin, arrives for work in a neglected corner of a building called the City Hall Annex. A stately, Depression-era brick structure on a ...

COVID-19 testing is becoming more common in the UK as, along with mass vaccinations, it helps to open up society at a time when restrictions are easing. A university is trialling the use of saliva ...

A major testing programme used to quickly detect Covid-19 in the NHS, prisons, schools and social care may be dropped next year, The Independent has learned. Multiple senior sources have told The ...