Visby Engages Quest and Labcorp to Broaden Consumer Access to First At-Home, FDA-Authorized PCR Test for STIs

Today, Visby Medical announced two new relationships that will expand national access to the Visby Women’s Sexual Health Test ...
Infectious Disease Advisor

Point-of-Care STI Testing Reduces ED Length of Stay and Unnecessary Antibiotic Use

Point-of-care PCR testing for STIs in the ED reduced length of stay and improved antibiotic stewardship compared with central laboratory testing.
Nature

Virus PCR Assay Panels: An Alternative to the Mouse Antibody Production Test

The transmission of viruses through biological materials is of great concern to many researchers and managers of lab animal facilities. There is ample documentation 1 for the confounding effects of ...
GEN

PCR-Like Lab-on-a-Chip Infection Test Could Lead to Novel Portable Diagnostics

Researchers at Imperial College London say they have developed a novel lab-on-a-chip infection test that could provide less expensive and faster portable diagnostics. The chip, known as TriSilix, is a ...
Business Insider

One nerdy piece of good news about Omicron: We already have tests that spot signs of the variant

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BioTechniques

PCR: king or squire?

With laboratory methods and diagnostics advancing apace, Francesca Lake considers whether PCR is likely to retain its crown as an essential lab method, or whether it could be replaced and consigned to ...