WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Food and Drug Administration announced Saturday that it has authorized an at-home sample collection kit that can then be sent to specified laboratories for COVID-19 diagnostic ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers identified that morning-collected nasal and saliva samples yielded better detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

The gold standard for detecting the presence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay that is conducted ...

Genomic medicine startup Lucence and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s national research agency and a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, ...

The test must be performed by trained operators, but it gives a result in less than three minutes with a high level of accuracy Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering ...

There are two types of COVID-19 tests: PCR and rapid antigen. They both work by analyzing nasal or saliva samples from people, but the tests differ in how they process them — as well as how accurate ...