In its formative years PCR and its intellectual possessors had to go through some legal wrangling over the originality of the technique. In point of fact, a 13-year earlier paper by Nobelist Gobind ...

SARS-CoV-2 is the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that mutations in the genome of SARS-CoV-2 have occurred and spread, but what effect do those mutations have? Current methods for ...

Genetic testing can be a fearful, daunting, overwhelming, exciting, or joyful experience. In many cases, the emotions of people who pursue genetic testing can be described with more than just one of ...

A video advocating for an airline that vows to resist any future COVID-19 restrictions such as requirements to be vaccinated, wear a face mask, or provide a negative COVID-19 test, contains false ...

Heterozygous deletions of the short arm of chromosome 3 have consistently been found in various types of lung cancer, the shortest region of overlap of the deletions being band 3p21 [1–3]. Therefore, ...

Though PCR testing has been established as the gold standard for COVID-19 detection, it remains less accessible than rapid antigen testing, since most PCR tests typically take longer to return results ...

TEMPLE CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLGT) (“Fulgent Genetics”, “Fulgent”, or the “Company”), a technology-based genetic ...

A new form of PCR has been used to improve the library preparation for forensic DNA typing from difficult samples like touch evidence and human remains. Typically, DNA sequencing and analysis is ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify a long sequence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) DNA, to assess the correlation between PCR signal and clinical stage of disease, and to ...

Researchers develop a molecular testing-based fast-throughput method for the rapid and early detection of Salmonella ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Departments of Pathology and Genetics jointly offer a one-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in molecular genetic pathology. The fellowship is designed to train ...