HIT Consultant

PCR is the Gold Standard of Testing. How Can It Be Improved?

Most of us have been tested for COVID-19 over the past few years. If that’s true of you, you know the routine: you go to a testing site, give your sample, a medical professional sends it to a ...
Business Wire

Neelyx Labs announces immediate capacity for rapid monkeypox PCR testing

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amid rising concerns about a lack of testing to stop the spread of the monkeypox virus, Neelyx Labs, an independent diagnostics firm based in the Chicago area, announced they ...
FierceBiotech

Labcorp launches monkeypox PCR tests through CDC initiative

The orthopoxvirus PCR test was validated by Labcorp for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can detect all non-smallpox-related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox. (Labcorp) With ...
University of Hawaii

How much profit are private labs earning from PCR testing?

How the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm in which private laboratories can earn huge profits from PCR testing while potentially impacting health care ...
Nature

How efficient, multi-pathogen PCR testing could transform diagnostics

“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 ...

Point-of-Care Testing, Falling Prices and PCR Threaten the Immunoassay Lab Model: What Diagnostics Leaders Must Do Next

Forecasts by application, technology and care setting show where hospital and outpatient lab spending is shifting, with strategies from 64 players including Roche, Abbott and Siemens ...

PCR Market Report Forecasts qPCR, Digital PCR and Multiplex Testing Growth, Profiling 89 Companies Including Roche and Thermo Fisher

Five-year forecasts by application, technology, product and setting, from clinical labs to point of care, as syndromic multiplex panels reshape molecular diagnostics after the pandemic.Dublin, Oct. 08 ...

Clinical Laboratory Testing Through the Lens of the Nobel Prize: Five Pathogens That Revealed 'What Should Be Detected'

In the previous article, we covered Nobel Prizes that changed 'how we measure,' such as immunoassays, monoclonal antibodies, ...
The Conversation

Here’s another type of COVID test to get your head around. But is this new home kit worth the cost?

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we’re familiar with. It also promises a ...

HTLV-1 Antibody Testing for Medical Laboratory Technicians: Screening Positives, LIA Indeterminate Results, PCR Interpretation, and Insurance Coverage for CSF CXCL10

Testing for HTLV-1 (human T-cell leukemia virus type 1) is an area where medical laboratory technicians often struggle with ...
Lab Manager

FDA-Cleared Multiplex GI PCR Test Expands Molecular Options for Gastrointestinal Pathogen Detection

The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new multiplex gastrointestinal PCR assay designed to streamline the detection of common diarrhea-causing pathogens from a single patient sample. The ...
Medical Xpress

New COVID test promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we're familiar with. It also promises a ...