Swabs and reagents are used to collect and process samples for coronavirus testing. The sudden worldwide demand for these materials has created a bottleneck and slowed down testing. Government ...

They're the tip of the testing spear in the fight against the coronavirus. Reagents. It's a fancy word for the main ingredients of any chemical-based test, which in this pandemic includes inorganic ...

Scientists have developed an accurate COVID-19 test doesn't use scarce reagents, paving the way for wide testing in both developing countries and industrialized nations like the United States, where ...

Fri, April 24, 2020 Published on Apr. 23, 2020 Published on 2020-04-23T20:12:31+07:00 shortage of reagents is interfering with the government's efforts to ramp up much-needed mass testing for the ...

The coronavirus crisis is in large part a testing crisis. We are reading about tests. Arguing about tests. And, in many cases, struggling mightily to obtain tests for ourselves. But while test ...

The COVID era has brought us many new experiences: mask-wearing, remote schooling, sheltering in place. The majority of these have been onerous and dreary. It’s amazing how energy-sapping it is to ...

President Donald Trump continues to tout the country’s increased testing capabilities in his coronavirus briefings. He says that there’s a “tremendous amount” of unused testing capacity in states ...

A major roadblock to large scale testing for coronavirus infection in the developing world is a shortage of key chemicals, or reagents, needed for the test, specifically the ones used to extract the ...