Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the surrounding environment than by testing individual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests Omicron may be easier to detect in saliva than nasal samples. Some experts recommend swabbing your throat ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers evaluated the performance of monkeypox virus (MPXV)-infected patients' self-collected versus physician-collected clinical samples ...

Lancing a finger elicits minimal pain in humans and is applied routinely to obtain small volumes of blood for clinical diagnostics. A modified lancet bleeding method and several blood sampling ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with urine samples, vaginal swabs had significantly greater sensitivity for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

A team of scientists and doctors has developed a capability to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA -- the nucleic acid coding for the virus that causes COVID-19 -- indoors through air sampling. When ...

Researchers identified elevated Sp4 mRNA and HSP60 protein levels in cheek cells from people with schizophrenia. These ...

The Agency warned that use of an alternate sample type (eg, blood, saliva) may lead to false test results. When testing for monkeypox virus, only swab samples taken directly from a lesion (rash or ...

Stephanie Dosch, a senior zoologist, performs a nasal swab on Manis the tiger at Dallas Zoo.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) Armed with a tub of meat chunks, black protective gloves and several ...