So the question remains "What are the essential prerequisites for establishing a quantitative RT-PCR assay?" To date, a great deal of effort has been spent defining the "correct" conditions that ...

Traditional PCR amplification is a qualitative assay ... Yet even with that broad knowledge base, Puri says, the development of an RT-qPCR assay for SARS-CoV-2 testing was not easy or immediate.

As the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease spreads across the world, the IAEA, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is offering its support ...

Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, the gold standard in testing for the disease has been a nuclear-derived technique: real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction, or real-time ...

Most hepatitis E infections in industrialized countries arise due to zoonotic genotypes three and four. These infections ...

IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay by Siemens Healthineers has received manufacturing approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). This is a significant achievement ...