In a study involving nearly 1,000 patients seen at the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital (BCCFH) during a five-month period in 2022—researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of ...

Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic people who felt unwell had to join long queues for lab-based PCR tests and then wait for two days to learn if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus or not.

In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers demonstrated that human transferrin receptor (TfR) mediates severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Home Health New diagnostic tool achieves accuracy of PCR tests with faster and simpler nanopore system A new diagnostic tool developed by UCSC’s Holger Schmidt and his collaborators can test for ...