Nipah scare: RT-PCR tests conducted on bats at Kolkata's Alipore Zoo

Kolkata, Amid concerns over a possible Nipah virus threat, bats at Kolkata's Alipore Zoo are undergoing RT-PCR testing to ...

Nipah scare: RT-PCR tests conducted on bats at Kolkata zoo

Kolkata's Alipore Zoo bats undergo RT-PCR tests amid Nipah virus concerns, as health authorities enhance surveillance across ...

BLOODPAC Publishes New Standards for Liquid Biopsy Tests That Monitor for Cancer Recurrence

A new consensus document developed by The Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer (BLOODPAC) Consortium was published in JCO ...
AlphaGalileo

New method maps gene expression at the cellular level in tea plant roots

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...
Mote Marine Laboratory

Shark PCR resources for law enforcement and border control personnel

What is the best PCR protocol for my agency to ID sharks and rays? Led by Mote’s Dr. Demian Chapman (also an adjunct at Florida International University) and FIU biologist Dr. Diego Cardeñosa, ...
Cochrane

How accurate are alternative laboratory-based molecular tests (to RT-PCR with prior RNA extraction/purification) for identifying people infected by SARS-CoV-2?

* Transcription-mediated amplification (TMA) tests and commercially available reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests specifically designed to omit/adapt RNA ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014) CDC Real-Time RT-PCR Protocol for Detection and Characterization of Influenza B Viruses. CDC.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Influenza A (Flu A) and B (Flu B) viruses are responsible for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) worldwide, with a morbidity of 5 million and mortality of 29,000 - ...
C&EN

Streamlined Specimen Purification for Rapid COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Positively Charged Polymer Thin Film-Coated Surfaces and Chamber Digital PCR

Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Hwarang-ro 14-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea ...
C&EN

One-Tube Nested PCR Coupled with CRISPR-Cas12a for Ultrasensitive Nucleic Acid Testing

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. In this study, we presented an ultrasensitive, visible (to the ...
Frontiers

Evaluation of saliva and nasopharyngeal swab sampling for genomic detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children accessing a pediatric emergency department during the second pandemic wave

SARS-CoV-2 infection is mainly detected by multiplex real-time RT-PCR from upper respiratory specimens, which is considered the gold-standard technique for SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis. A ...