A new test kit manufactured locally by a research team from Peradeniya University, is to be used in Sri Lanka as an interim testing method to the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and PCR tests to detect ...

It has been over a year since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, and in a month, it will be a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. At ...

Many countries now demand negative Covid-19 test results from incoming travellers. But there is neither international agreement on the type of test nor the timing requirements. Even within the UK’s ...

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The development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1983 by Kary Mullis and coworkers revolutionized molecular biology, allowing scientists to amplify DNA sequences for various applications. 1 ...