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A Stanford study just rewrote the Bengal cat's origin storyNew research reveals Bengal cats' striking looks originate from common house cats. For years, people believed their wild ancestry was respo...- Nancy Guthrie Disappearance: DNA and suspect’s saliva emerge as crucial clue in investigation? Expert makes explosive claims as mystery intensifiesThe search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Savannah Guthrie, intensifies over 10 weeks after her mysterious disappearance from her...
- Simple nasal swab can provide early warning of stealthy viruses: Lancet studyPublic health officials typically look to a few sources for warning signs of emerging disease. They study emerging viruses in animals that ...
- 15 things not to do when using a rapid antigen Covid testHere are 15 pitfalls to avoid if you want to get the most out of your rapid antigen test.
- 15 things not to do when using a rapid antigen test for Covid-19Many of us have taken a rapid antigen test (RAT) or have administered them to our school-aged children. But how many of us are using them c...
- At-home test kits are on the rise due to Omicron, but how accurately can nasal swabs detect Covid?But the rapid spread of the omicron variant, and questions about the sensitivity of at-home tests, have rekindled a debate over whether the...
- Gujarat: Omicron patient's wife, brother-in-law also detected with new variant; tally 3 nowGenome sequencing of swab samples at the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC) in Gandhinagar has established that both the COVID-19...
- How to perform rapid antigen test at home. 7 tips to get accurate resultYou'll get your results much sooner than standard PCR tests, which most of us will be familiar with.
- Non-invasive skin swab tests can quickly detect COVID-19: Lancet studyThe most widely used approach to testing for COVID-19 requires a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which involves taking a swab of the ...
- ICMR approves CSIR's COVID-19 testing method that can help ramp up number of RT-PCR testsThe Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a simple and fast method for COVID-19 testing which can not only increase the n...
- Self-collected saliva samples could quickly detect asymptomatic Covid-19 cases, according to a studyRapid detection of asymptomatic infected individuals will be critical for preventing Covid-19 outbreaks.
- Indian researchers start trials on saliva-based Covid-19 testingThe Medanta Institute of Education and Research in Gurgaon, Mumbai-based diagnostics company TransAsia Bio and Pune’s Mylab are among those...
- Covid-19: Ministers fret over delay in lab reports, fear it can trigger super-spreading“The problem is not so much with government labs, but those privately run. This has often landed the government in embarrassing situations,...
- CCMB develops new, low-cost testing method for covid-19; ICMR nod awaitedIt eliminates the time-consuming RNA extraction in testing and imported viral transfer medium (VTM), required to transfer the swab samples ...
- Suspecting Covid? Stanford recommends self-swabbing for accurate & safer test resultsTest samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded more accurate results.
- Smart Kiosk for swab collection launched in BengaluruThe kiosks help separate physicians and patients in different rooms while the sample is being collected. Being able to perform a test witho...
- It was a false positive for travellers as ICMR says labs can't test walk-in casesKarnataka has said travellers from Maharashtra, Delhi and four other “high-risk” states will be exempted from institutional quarantine if t...
- Low-cost indigenous swab for coronavirus testing developedAs per the guidelines of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, polymer swab is used for collection of a sample from the upper resp...
- Oral swabs may diagnose tuberculosis easily and inexpensivelyOral swab samples may prove to be a "game-changer" for tuberculosis control as they can help diagnose the disease easily and inexpensively,...
- Suspected swine flu death in DelhiA 35-year-old woman suspected to be suffering from swine flu died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital here, doctors said on Thursday.
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