WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Food and Drug Administration announced Saturday that it has authorized an at-home sample collection kit that can then be sent to specified laboratories for COVID-19 diagnostic ...

For diagnostic testing, proper sample collection and transport play a pivotal role in the accurate and timely identification of a pathogen. When testing for respiratory viruses, the gold standard for ...

The gold standard for detecting the presence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay that is conducted ...

1.2 million COVID-19 tests have been completed across the state and counting. 87,000 of those tests are confirmed positive. Are results from a drive-thru "self" tests as reliable as those from a ...

On Thursday, Amazon landed an FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its COVID-19 test kit with at-home sample collection. According to FDA documents, the product is cleared for self-sample collection by ...

The Delhi High Court recently observed the "next Covid pandemic" was far from over as it asked for details on the Centre's preparedness for the collection of samples, centres and transport policy.

Gone are the days of visiting a doctor’s office to determine whether you have Covid. Instead, you can buy over-the-counter test kits, which diagnose infection from the comfort of your home, making ...

Genomic medicine startup Lucence and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s national research agency and a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, ...