On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home test that can detect flu and Covid-19 — but for the test’s maker, Lucira, the long-anticipated ...

Two types of COVID-19 tests, the rapid antigen test and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, are available in the United States. The PCR typically relies on lab testing and is still considered ...

The Food and Drug Administration authorized a new test that detects SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and influenza B. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A new biotechnology company in McKinney has ambitions to become the world’s first fully integrated platform for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing — the same technology behind a common COVID-19 ...

Molecular tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use. Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would ...

Doug Greene, left, and Genevieve York-Erwin, right, of Baker & Hostetler. Courtesy photos It’s one of those archetypal pandemic business stories, but with a securities litigation twist. Before the ...

PCR is a mainstay in diagnostics, but whether a sample is collected at a clinic or at home, such tests require sending a sample to a lab and then waiting for results. A new FDA authorized ...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has become the first hospital in the U.S. to install a diagnostic machine that could help improve sepsis treatment. QIAcuityDx, as the machine is called, automates ...

When COVID first hit, waiting days for laboratory results from an ultrasensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was commonplace. Faster tests usable by anyone, anywhere, later became widely ...

Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test ...