or real-time RT–PCR. Fast and accurate, real-time RT–PCR has been critical in detecting, tracking and studying COVID-19. But what is it, and how does it work? Let us explain.

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 ...

Until this past January, few outside academic and diagnostic labs knew what quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (RT ... and RT-qPCR is now widely known as the definitive test for severe acute ...