With Covid on the rise once again, you may find yourself reaching for an at-home test for the first time in months. Covid activity is picking up, with hospitalizations increasing in recent weeks, ...

Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a standard method recommended for the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requires 2–4 h to get the result. Although ...

PCR technology is a molecular diagnostics technology that detects target nucleic acids by amplifying the DNA amount. It has brought marked progress in the life sciences field since its development in ...

A Covid-19 antigen self-test kit shows a positive case on January 13, 2022 in Madrid. - Spain today agreed to cap the cost of Covid antigen tests at just under three euros after the government came ...

Determining whether you have a cold, the flu or Covid-19 might be getting a little easier soon. On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first over-the-counter combination test ...

At-home Covid tests can be ordered for free starting Monday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Households can now order four free ...

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic people who felt unwell had to join long queues for lab-based PCR tests and then wait for two days to learn if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus or not.