Rapid UTI PCR testing entered UK clinical use for the first time at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on October 28, 2026.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a number of changes, many of which will remain in place long after it subsides. One important but under-recognized shift could be in the field of clinical diagnostics.

Medical and consumer genetics innovator Genefluence today announces the first use of its rapid, near-patient diagnostic platform to screen for urinary tract infections (UTIs), at the Royal Hospital ...

Most of us have been tested for COVID-19 over the past few years. If that’s true of you, you know the routine: you go to a testing site, give your sample, a medical professional sends it to a ...

When reading articles about genetic testing, terms like PCR, Sanger sequencing, NGS, and digital PCR often appear.While all ...

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we’re familiar with. It also promises a ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

How the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm in which private laboratories can earn huge profits from PCR testing while potentially impacting health care ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amid rising concerns about a lack of testing to stop the spread of the monkeypox virus, Neelyx Labs, an independent diagnostics firm based in the Chicago area, announced they ...

Newswise — Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have designed a high-quality assay that can be used in at-home tests for rapid COVID-19 screening. Results from an early preclinical study ...