PCR tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use.

The home tests are “antigen” tests, while the gold-standard tests available at medical facilities use another technology, RT-PCR.

In a bombshell alert ignored so far by major media, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) alerted health professionals that the PCR test cannot differentiate between COVID and the Flu. Therefore ...

Real-time RT-PCR tests can't tell if you've had COVID-19 in the past (blood tests that search for the presence of coronavirus antibodies do that).

CDC test can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu? That’s wrong. While the CDC is withdrawing its EUA request for the 2019-nCoV RT-PCR test, it is not because the test is faulty.

- a SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test that has been successfully validated for pharynx gargling samples, providing a gold standard PCR test in an easy-to-use, self-sampling format especially beneficial in ...

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial diseases.

At-home COVID testing just got a lot smarter thanks to Cue Health The test uses an isothermal nucleic acid amplification method instead of PCR.

The Tetracore® Real-Time PCR Test was validated for use on epithelial and serum samples. ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tetracore, Inc. (Tetracore) announced today the licensing of ...

Roche received a FDA CLIA waiver for its rapid point-of-care test to detect and differentiate influenza A virus and influenza B virus, using its cobas Liat PCR System.

Travelers must take a viral test, which includes antigen tests and nucleic acid amplification tests such as: reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests ...