If you frequent the Harvard Square T station, you may have seen sign boards urging you to “Swab your nose, get $2” in order to “Help detect the next pandemic.” Those signs are part of a program called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests Omicron may be easier to detect in saliva than nasal samples. Some experts recommend swabbing your throat ...

A throat swab, if done properly, might just be the difference between a "positive" or "negative" on some at-home COVID-19 tests. Some amateur scientists have noted on social media that their rapid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with urine samples, vaginal swabs had significantly greater sensitivity for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

This World TB Day, affordable, easy-to-use rapid tests for tuberculosis — the world's most deadly infectious disease — are expanding access to screenings and treatments.

Longitudinal sexually transmitted enteric infection sampling was feasible and acceptable among GBMSM. Read more.

A team of scientists and doctors has developed a capability to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA -- the nucleic acid coding for the virus that causes COVID-19 -- indoors through air sampling. When ...

The Agency warned that use of an alternate sample type (eg, blood, saliva) may lead to false test results. When testing for monkeypox virus, only swab samples taken directly from a lesion (rash or ...

A simple nasal swab may offer an unexpected window into the earliest biological signals of Alzheimer’s disease.

Lancing a finger elicits minimal pain in humans and is applied routinely to obtain small volumes of blood for clinical diagnostics. A modified lancet bleeding method and several blood sampling ...