Two types of COVID-19 tests, the rapid antigen test and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, are available in the United States. The PCR typically relies on lab testing and is still considered ...

From starting out as a night-drive idea to becoming a global diagnostic gold standard, PCR has irreversibly transformed life sciences in its 40 years of existence. By 1991, scientists had begun ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a staggering 340 million tests for the virus were supplied across the world by a company based in South Korea that specializes in so-called syndromic real-time polymerase ...

Since its invention in the 1980s, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) opened the door for applications such as genetic engineering, genotyping, and sequencing, and has become a fundamental part of ...

Automated quality control using rapid PCR assays is replacing 28-day culture tests, cutting biopharmaceutical lot release ...