Early and accurate detection is critical for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and providing appropriate care for patients. Nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, which require inserting a long shaft into the ...

Results of a South African study in this week's issue of THE LANCET show how a diagnosis of tuberculosis in young children can be confirmed by a straightforward sputum test, rather than the ...

Affinity Technologies (NASDAQ:BIAF) announced on March 10, 2026, the launch of a large longitudinal clinical study involving 2,000 patients to evaluate the performance of its CyPath® Lung technology ...

In children and HIV patients, it is very difficult to get the sputum sample. No matter how sensitive, or accurate, the sputum test is, it can only serve about 60 to 65% of the patient population ...

Experts suggest that this near-point-of-care molecular test can be implemented at the primary care level and at a lower cost.

In a group of high-risk patients, a test that examined DNA from cells expelled in sputum for evidence of "silenced" genes correctly identified the majority of patients who were later diagnosed with ...

Clinicians found that some patients had positive real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results for SARS-CoV-2 in the sputum or feces after the pharyngeal swabs became negative ...

Dr. Tony Hu, originally from China, came to the United States in 2012 for his master's in chemistry and his doctorate in biological engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. After two years in ...