The US Food and Drug Administration granted clearances for testing instruments, a blood clot drug companion diagnostic test, and infectious disease tests, among other devices.

Meyer Clinic Founder and Clinical Director, Dr Annelize Meyer believes Vaginal Health is still not discussed openly enough and that the revolutionary treatments now available are largely going under ...

Although Africa has been qualified as having an unsatisfactory level of diagnosis in the face of this pandemic, our laboratory has nevertheless been able to carry out a large number of screening tests ...

After selecting the method, techniques such as Illumina MiSeq can be used for adapter ligation, PCR amplification, library preparation, and sequencing. The resulting sequences can be analyzed using ...

Most require a blood or saliva sample or a swab of the inside of your cheek (known ... One such process, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), is used to "amplify" the number of DNA strands in a blood ...

The planned changes include reinstating a version of chromosome testing that was discontinued in the 1990s, requiring athletes who compete in the female category to submit to a cheek swab or dry blood ...

Geoff Bennett: The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. And its potential sale has raised alarms about what could happen to the DNA data of its millions of users. 23andMe was ...

The new regulations will include a once-off swab test to detect the presence of the SRY gene, which is part of the Y chromosome and is crucial in the development of male characteristics.

This is why DNA analysis is such a big deal. Today, it is most often (but not exclusively) used together with technologies like PCR, capillary electrophoresis, and fingerprinting. Each of an ...

Paris (AFP) – World Athletics said on Tuesday it had approved the introduction of a cheek swab test to determine if an athlete is biologically female. Sebastian Coe, the president of the ...

Investigators interviewed all employees, and all agreed to provide a buccal swab for DNA testing except for Brown, Capt. Steve Milkovits said. Milkovits said Brown was initially cooperative with ...