Hello! I cover the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Eileen.Buckley@wkbw.com PENDLETON, NY (WKBW) — A Niagara County school district took a big leap forward to ...
New COVID-19 restrictions for international travel and other activities are fueling consumer demand for highly accurate polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests with rapid turnaround times. Some ...
The next time you get tested for COVID-19, it might cost $130, $385, or no money at all. Some labs tack on additional fees such as those for “specimen collection”—the act of inserting a cotton-tipped ...
A COVID-19 sensor developed at Johns Hopkins University could revolutionize virus testing by adding accuracy and speed to a process that frustrated many during the pandemic. In a new study published ...
NEW HYDE PARK, Long Island (WABC) -- New York state's largest hospital system is rolling out a new COVID test that could be a game changer. The new process will allow 10 times more testing at one ...
Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...
BLUE ASH, Ohio (WKRC) - It wasn’t ordered online or delivered in a blue van, but there is a lot of valuable new equipment in the biology lab at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, thanks to ...
While they've been the gold standard to identify positive coronavirus cases around the world for more than a year, PCR tests still aren't trusted by some social media users. An Oct. 4 Instagram post ...
COVID-19 is commonly diagnosed by quantitative fluorescence real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) (1, 2). The test is the sequential action of two enzymes–an ...