Money, status, or even survival – there’s no shortage of incentives for faking results in the scientific community. What can we do to prevent it, or at least make it noticeable? One possible solution ...

Adam de la Zerda, Visby Medical founder and CEO.. Courtesy company Timing is everything when it comes to Covid-19. And when it comes to Covid testing, place is right up there too. Visby Medical, a San ...

In some parts of the U.S. right now, it can take weeks to get results for a simple Covid-19 test, a delay that renders the results largely useless. So a handful of city governments and schools are ...

A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect tuberculosis. The deadly lung disease infects around 90,000 people in the ...

Engineers have developed a new method for duplicating DNA that makes devices small enough to hold in your hand that are capable of identifying infectious agents before symptoms appear. Imagine a "DNA ...

Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a laboratory technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA. PCR is very precise and can be used to amplify, or copy, a specific DNA target from a ...

Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that PCRmax, a leading UK manufacturer of laboratory bench top equipment, has launched the Alpha Cycler 2, a compact dual block system for flexible and ...

Novel techniques, automated machines, sophisticated synthetic and bioprospected polymerases, and developments in symbiotic sequencing technologies have transformed PCR into a multifaceted, adaptable ...

Getting tested for coronavirus in the U.S. has been difficult to impossible for many people, starting with technical difficulties with the kits initially developed by the Centers for Disease Control ...

BioGrad is spearheading efforts to place £10.5 million worth of donated PCR equipment by the end of 2025, with £6 million already delivered across the UK. Liverpool, UK, 13 November 2025 / BioGrad, a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object, affectionately referred ...