The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) that detects a pathogen by finding ...

Clinical trial sponsors expanding studies across Europe often face complex regulatory pathways for sample testing, particularly when assays must support EU and UK patient cohorts within compliant ...

Characterization of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancers With MET Exon 14 Skipping Alterations Detected in Tissue or Liquid: Clinicogenomics and Real-World Treatment Patterns Among 31,165 (97.2%) samples where ...

Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in South Africa. Self-collected vaginal samples and clinician-collected cervical samples were tested with Xpert HPV, an assay that ...

A Standard Test Method is a conclusive procedure that yields a test result. So as to achieve accurate and relevant test results, a standard test method is definite, unambiguous, and experimentally ...

Testing pooled saliva samples twice weekly for SARS-CoV-2 on a residential college campus yielded a greater than 95 percent agreement with the gold standard for accuracy -- nasopharyngeal diagnostic ...

Manufacturers must employ sample sizes that ensure that packaging systems are safe, meet regulatory requirements, and maintain sterility. Photo courtesy of Beacon Convertors (Saddle Brook, NJ). The ...

Coronavirus testing at a site in Los Angeles on July 10, 2020. America’s testing infrastructure is collapsing. As coronavirus cases surge around the country, laboratories are facing crippling ...