The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.

Cepheid announced today that it has received FDA clearance for Xpert GI Panel, a multiplex PCR test designed to provide fast ...

Testing field samples like air, soil and water for pathogens is crucial to public health and environmental monitoring. A new rapid-detection test is able to return results in 24 hours, rather than the ...

The Danaher subsidiary aims to meet clinician needs for flexibility with a range of test size options for its vast installed base.

Scientists have discovered a new, much less invasive method for testing whales for pathogens. In the past, scientists needed ...

With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

The ability to detect diseases at an early stage or even predict their onset would be of tremendous benefit to doctors and patients alike. A research team now develops intelligent, miniaturized ...

At present, bacteria, fungi or viruses can generally only be detected with certainty by way of elaborate laboratory tests or animal experiments. The food and pharmaceutical industries would like to ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are testing a promising new biological threat detection method in high-fidelity training scenarios, ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The first systematic test of how widely pathogens can spread among distantly related plants reveals far greater range than conventional wisdom would suggest, raising questions about the ...