PITTSBURGH — One of the largest drug store chains in the country based here in Pennsylvania has been conducting self-swab testing for several months now, and the company said it is proving to be just ...

BACKGROUND: The role of children in the transmission and community spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is unclear. We aimed to quantify the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 ...

Hamilton Company and Rhinostics, an early-stage Harvard University spin-out company, are combining their respective strengths to improve the speed and quality of nasal and nasopharyngeal sample ...

Coronavirus testing is commonly an unpleasant, even painful experience in which a health care provider pushes a torturously long swab up your nostril. President Donald Trump declared that submitting ...

Rapid antigen-based testing was quickly embraced for its ease of use and speed; results are available within an unprecedented 30 min, potentially at the point of care, and without the requirement for ...

Saliva testing for COVID-19 may work as well as, if not better than, current testing protocol, potentially saving the world time, money and lives. A preprint of a potentially game-changing paper, ...

The NCL, a lab under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), will manufacture one lakh nasopharyngeal swabs a day, a press release issued by the organisation said The National ...

During a public seminar on genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-19 which was attended by the national laboratory heads from across the country including the National Institute of Virology (NIV) director Dr ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. TORONTO — A saliva-based COVID-19 test is likely to be available this fall, say private and public health ...