IntelliQube machines can run thousands of PCR tests daily to screen for COVID-19. Saliva samples are loaded into 384-well plastic plates. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Early in the pandemic it became ...

QIAGEN uses INTEGRA’s handheld and benchtop electronic liquid handling technologies to expedite and standardize nucleic acid isolation and PCR setup methods in its Genomic Services division. This ...

Adam de la Zerda, Visby Medical founder and CEO.. Courtesy company Timing is everything when it comes to Covid-19. And when it comes to Covid testing, place is right up there too. Visby Medical, a San ...

A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect tuberculosis. The deadly lung disease infects around 90,000 people in the ...

The nanopore optofluidic chip used in the new diagnostic system, with a PCR thermocycler in the background for comparison. The new system could easily fit into a researcher’s lab or clinician’s office ...

Novel techniques, automated machines, sophisticated synthetic and bioprospected polymerases, and developments in symbiotic sequencing technologies have transformed PCR into a multifaceted, adaptable ...

DNA is often used to identify mysterious materials or match a suspect with a crime. However, identification can be slowed while a trace amount of DNA is increased so there will be enough to test.