Swiss drugmaker Roche plans to boost rapid COVID-19 antigen test production to hundreds of millions monthly, including possible saliva tests, Chief Executive Severin Schwan said on Thursday, while ...

At-home COVID-19 tests have become an easy way to self-diagnose. But current tests have drawbacks, such as the length of time it takes to get an answer, or how accurately the test can identify a ...

WASHINGTON -- Rutgers University researchers have received U.S. government clearance for the first saliva test to help diagnose COVID-19, a new approach that could help expand testing options and ...

Opportunities in the COVID-19 diagnostics market include growing demand for rapid and precise diagnostic tests, especially mass and molecular diagnostics, innovation in at-home testing kits, and ...

Up to 10% of England's population could be tested for COVID-19 every week after NHS Test and Trace asked local health chiefs to deploy 30-minute saliva kits in an acceleration of Prime Minister Boris ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers evaluated a rapid antigen test (RAT) that used saliva specimens to detect the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Finding a COVID-19 test in December 2021, when New Jersey detected its first case of the omicron variant, was like hitting the jackpot. The virus was then spreading quickly, just in time for the ...

Deependra Kumar Ban, Tyler Bodily, Abhijith G. Karkisaval, Yongliang Dong, Shreyam Natani, Anirudh Ramanathan, Armando Ramil, Sunil Srivastava, Prab Bandaru, Gennadi Glinsky, Ratnesh Lal Proceedings ...

For instance, if you only get a very faint line, it might be hard to know whether or not that means your results are positive. I know how that feels firsthand. After more than two years of evading ...

Before COVID-19, figuring out whether a sore throat, fever, and runny nose were caused by a cold, flu, or strep wasn’t a top priority. You either powered through, knowing you’d be miserable for a few ...

Last spring, a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for COVID-19 — developed by Northwestern University spinoff company Minute Molecular Diagnostics — received emergency use authorization (EUA) ...