AMDI™ Fast PCR System Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance and CLIA Waiver for Sub-10-Minute Respiratory Panel

Autonomous Medical Devices Incorporated (AMDI) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted both ...

Ebola Outbreak: Why RT-PCR Is The Gold Standard For Testing Infections

According to WHO, it can be difficult to clinically distinguish Ebola disease from other infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, shigellosis, meningitis and other viral haemorrhagic fevers ...
Nature

The effects of RT-qPCR standards on reproducibility and comparability in monitoring SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater

Wastewater surveillance is a widely employed method for monitoring the nucleic acid genomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as well as other pathogens, at the ...
Nature

Real-time reverse transcription recombinase polymerase amplification (RT-RPA) assay for detection of cassava brown streak viruses

Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) caused by Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV) is the most economically important viral disease of cassava. As cassava ...