For instance, if you only get a very faint line, it might be hard to know whether or not that means your results are positive. I know how that feels firsthand. After more than two years of evading ...

Testing continues to be a priority in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with many countries implementing large-scale screening programs using rapid antigen tests, in a bid to identify ...

Nathaniel Hafer receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Anuradha Rao receives funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and ...

A false positive result is possible with a rapid COVID-19 test. It happens when a person does not have COVID-19 but still tests positive for the disease. People can use a rapid COVID-19 test at home ...

India has approved the use of a new type of rapid coronavirus test based on gene editing technology in a bid to boost its testing numbers. With the second highest number of cases in the world after ...

Thea van de Mortel teaches into the Graduate Infection Prevention and Control program at Griffith University. Karin Plummer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

It was possible -- albeit rare -- for people not infected with SARS-CoV-2 to have persistent false positive rapid antigen COVID-19 tests, longitudinal data showed. Among a large cohort of over 11,000 ...

With the impending fall flu season and the continued circulation of new COVID-19 variants across the country, attention is once again turning to rapid antigen tests. However, this flu season is ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed a high-throughput, rapid antigen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein detection ...