An expert panel convened by the nation’s top post-acute care medical organization has recommended against the routine use of urine PCR tests to diagnose urinary tract infections. Such tests have ...

According to WHO, it can be difficult to clinically distinguish Ebola disease from other infectious diseases such as malaria, ...

Setting: The diagnosis of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) remains an important clinical problem, primarily because of the inadequate sensitivity of conventional bacteriologic methods for detecting ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a fundamental molecular biology tool that scientists use to amplify and analyze genetic material, such as DNA and RNA. PCR involves the enzymatic amplification of ...

FDA-authorized test for home use is the most affordable PCR-quality rapid test on the market and at least 50 times more sensitive than leading rapid antigen tests Detect’s FDA authorized PCR-quality ...

Researchers have concluded MRSA screening using polymerase chain reaction generally demonstrated lower turnaround time and number of isolation days than chromogenic agar, according to research ...

Proteins are critical to life – and to industry. There are countless proteins that could be engineered to treat and even cure ...

Countable Labs raises $26 million to develop advanced single-molecule PCR tools, expanding precision diagnostics for global ...

In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...