Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test using one of my rapid home PCR tests. It was a courtesy—he felt perfectly fine— ...

When COVID first hit, waiting days for laboratory results from an ultrasensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was commonplace. Faster tests usable by anyone, anywhere, later became widely ...

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic people who felt unwell had to join long queues for lab-based PCR tests and then wait for two days to learn if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus or not.

The submitted test runs on the firm's point-of-care instrument and detects four respiratory pathogens within 10 minutes directly from patient nasal swab samples.

The next day, as his cold symptoms seemed to worsen, he went to the local public health center for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test but was told to go home since the self-test kit showed a ...