Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid (antigen) tests for COVID-19 both involve taking a swab. Results for a PCR test take longer, as it needs to go to a laboratory. It is more costly but tends to ...

Facing long lines and shortages of home test kits during the latest surge, people are searching for answers about Covid tests. By Tara Parker-Pope Dani Blum and Nicole Stock Testing is essential to ...

Kristen Haase receives funding from Health Canada and Roche to study rapid testing. Don D. Sin receives funding from Westjet/YVR to evaluate the feasibility of implementing rapid testing at airports.

More than two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Other countries are awash in Covid tests. The U.S. is not. By David Leonhardt Your daughter wakes up with a scratchy throat, and you can’t decide whether she should go to school. You can’t shake a ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON – Both tablet-based and website-based Melbourne Rapid Fields tests had high test-retest reliability, with ...

Arizona advances in fighting Valley Fever with a new rapid test developed by Dr. Thomas Grys of the Mayo Clinic and ASU, ...

A Naperville-based bioscience laboratory could help address the backlog of COVID-19 testing across the country and eventually assist the United States in more quickly confronting a future virulent ...

A rapid DNA testing machine displays 77 minutes remaining on a 90-minute test. The use of rapid DNA testing is becoming more widespread across Connecticut as an evidentiary tool. Credit: Mark Mirko / ...