COVID-19 is an infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. There are many testing methods available for COVID-19. At-home COVID-19 tests or rapid PCR tests detect current infection by identifying the presence or absence of antigen. A more reliable testing option is a PCR test, or nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) which detect viral genetic material and need to be performed using laboratory analysis.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a dramatic toll worldwide. Its impact possibly has been the most palpable amongst uniquely vulnerable groups of patients, such as patients with a cancer diagn...
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA at a single temperature. By eliminating temperature cyclin...
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Date: March 08, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, a potentially lethal viral infection that can cause sever...
Perhaps more than any other area of clinical medicine, anticoagulation management laboratory data are evaluated hourly by healthcare systems in the inpatient setting and daily in the outpatie...
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Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST) Glassware washers (GWW) serve two important roles in today's dynamic laboratory environment. First, by automating a routine task...
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Date: November 16, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) In this 15-minute podcast, Dr. Anne Wyllie, Research Scientist in Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, discusses saliva tes...
Lab-on-a-chip platforms enable advanced processing, manipulation, and analysis of biological samples in miniaturized fluidic devices. Despite the numerous advantages, such as lower reagent a...
Last year, while experts were concerned about the “twindemic”, the flu season was virtually non-existent due to COVID-19 public health countermeasures. With COVID-19 vaccination...