Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, testing for active infection has been a crucial tool to help to control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enabling the identification of infected individuals and ...

A DNA/RNA test to detect infections, developed by Japan’s Eiken Chemical Company (Eiken) more than 20 years ago, is an easy, fast, and accurate alternative to the more well-known polymerase chain ...

It has been over a year since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, and in a month, it will be a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. At ...

A new corona test developed at the University Hospital Bonn can analyze a large number of swabs simultaneously using sequencing technology and has a similarly high sensitivity as the common qPCR test.

The kit is not based on a PCR test, the most commonly used test for COVID-19, but is based on a LAMP test, a widely accepted alternative with similar sensitivity. As the coronavirus pandemic continues ...

However, the novelty of LAMP technology is that it can amplify viral material without the complex temperature cycling required by PCR testing. The main problem with LAMP diagnostics has been ...