A Birmingham company is working with Cepheid to develop a PCR test for monkeypox, a virus that has spread to the U.S., though the CDC classifies the threat as low. Birmingham-based BioGX is ...

Though the global number of recorded monkeypox cases continues to climb—passing 4,100 last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—many researchers and epidemiologists ...

The Ministry of Health has approved the use of GeneXpert, a tuberculosis test, for Covid-19 screening. It is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test that has been used in Vietnam since ...

Cepheid has introduced the GeneXpert ® 16-Site System at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. The latest addition to Cepheid's GeneXpert ® family of real-time PCR devices ...

THE Japanese government has donated a GeneXpert (PCR) machine to assist Nyanga District Hospital to easily diagnose malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19 viruses. Speaking during the handover of the ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to emphasise the critically important role testing plays in curbing the rampaging spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19). It describes testing as a ...

MANILA, Philippines — The government reduced the price cap for real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests in a bid to make coronavirus testing more affordable and ...