Automated quality control using rapid PCR assays is replacing 28-day culture tests, cutting biopharmaceutical lot release ...
Visby Medical, the at-home diagnostics company, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the Visby Medical Flu and COVID-19 Test, the first multi-viral at-home PCR test.
It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...
Arizona is boosting its defenses against the New World screwworm as the deadly parasite threatens U.S. livestock again.
Stanford researchers have developed Microbe-Independent Deep Assembly and Screening – MIDAS – a polymerase chain ...
Northwestern Medicine scientists have demonstrated that a highly sensitive blood test can detect traces of pancreatic cancer ...
Saskatchewan entrepreneur Ethan Done co-designed a system giving producers and agronomists a chance to identify crop disease ...
The toxin behind two outbreaks in seven months is hard to find—and just a handful of labs are equipped to look for it at all ...
A new study suggests that a simple blood test, which measures brain-derived RNA biomarkers, could potentially help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier than current protein-based blood tests.