A new procedure can improve polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods of detecting plant disease organisms. A new procedure devised by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and ...

“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 ...

Dr. Lauren Bates uses qPCR for pathogen identification and depends on Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Real-Time PCR systems and reagents to achieve optimal results with quick response times. Learn how ...

PositiveID Corporation said it has detected E. coli bacteria on the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) chip of its pathogen detection system in less than 20 minutes. The Firefly Dx real-time PCR pathogen ...

Waterborne pathogens lead to deteriorating water quality and challenge global health and economy. The latest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Contaminant Candidate List (CCL4) contained 12 ...

Appointed in inbiome's Advisory Board · GlobeNewswire Inc. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 20, 2024. Inbiome, a pioneer in advanced molecular diagnostics, today announced the appointment of ...

An interesting new study shows that several viruses, including influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), significantly affect secondary infection or coinfection with ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely recognized as the golden standard for detecting infectious agents. Real‐time monitoring of PCR has further simplified ...

Researchers have modified a device for the detection of selected foodborne pathogens in a single reaction-without any enrichment step. Zhou et al developed and evaluated a novel application of the ...

Towards the end of 2019, news first broke of a novel, highly virulent pathogen that could cause serious human respiratory distress and, in some cases, death. That pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, has since been ...