Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, testing for active infection has been a crucial tool to help to control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enabling the identification of infected individuals and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A new higher-speed Covid-19 test that is key to the government’s “moonshot” testing programme is facing ...

It has been over a year since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, and in a month, it will be a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. At ...

The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 has challenged the testing capacity of many countries. In the United Kingdom, the testing strategy early on in the outbreak prioritized identifying and protecting ...

The COVID-19 tests in use today are laborious and complicated. They require a skilled professional to take samples, perform the reaction and analyze the results. Also, there is the need for dedicated ...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which has been spreading globally at rapid speed and is more ...

In a recent study published on the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluate the feasibility and robustness of an optimized reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) ...