Chai Biotechnologies has developed an open-sourced model of the the real-time PCR machine – updating the traditional DNA-duplication model by spitting out data.It’s crowdsourcing for funding on ...

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Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...

New Delhi: Amid mounting pressure from experts and the Delhi High Court for the Delhi government to ramp up testing through RT-PCR for COVID-19, officials said on Thursday that the high cost of ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...