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 ...

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Aashish Priye, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, is using microfluidics to make infectious disease testing faster, more cost-effective and easily accessible.

Q: When discussing the quick antibody tests, can you explain the difference between IgM and IgG antibodies? A: Immunoglobulin M (IgM) is the first antibody the body produces when it encounters a ...

Real time RT–PCR is one of the most widely used laboratory methods for detecting the COVID-19 virus. While many countries ...

Definition: DNA amplification is the laboratory process of making many copies of a selected DNA sequence from a very small starting amount. It allows DNA that would otherwise be too scarce to detect ...

Rapid UTI PCR testing entered UK clinical use for the first time at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on October 28, 2026.