The Boston Globe

PCR or rapid antigen? Here’s how to use COVID tests to gather safely for the holidays

With Massachusetts facing a new surge in COVID cases, experts are pointing to both molecular and antigen tests as useful tools to stay safe this holiday season. Both are diagnostic tests that can show ...
CNET

Need an at-home COVID PCR test kit? Just use DoorDash

You can order a COVID-19 test online through DoorDash and get same-day delivery. Here's how to do it. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for ...
Yahoo

PCR vs rapid antigen tests: Which Covid test you should use, when and why

For any American wondering if they have Covid-19, there are two kinds of tests available: polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid antigen (sometimes just called “rapid tests”). The two tests work in ...
Forbes

When Should I Use A PCR Test Versus An At-Home Antigen Test For Covid-19?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matt Binnicker is the CSO for Mayo Collaborative Services. Dr. Matt Binnicker, an expert in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, ...
Business Insider

Where to find at-home COVID tests — including for free — and how to use them correctly

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Reuters

Fact Check: PCR test for COVID-19 uses gene cloning but cannot be used to clone humans

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits for COVID-19 use what’s known as gene cloning – not reproductive cloning – to detect the presence or absence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but social media posts ...
The Hill

Appropriate use of PCR needed for a focused response to the pandemic

On January 13, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a little-noticed technical report that calls into question many of the policies that we have adopted to control the spread of the ...
GEN

PCR Tools for the Rest of Us

Nearly 40 years ago, American biochemist Kary Mullis developed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This technique impacted research in the life sciences so fundamentally that in 1993, less than a ...
USA Today

Fact check: Genomic sequencing, not PCR testing, detects COVID-19 variants

During the coronavirus pandemic, polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing has been an invaluable tool to diagnose new COVID-19 cases. But some social media users are casting doubt on the test's ...
Scientific American

The Pandemic Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics

A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect tuberculosis. The deadly lung disease infects around 90,000 people in the ...
GEN

Use of Digital PCR Ramping Up

PCR has allowed scientists to amplify scarce amounts of DNA and engage in the type of research that will help us understand the genetics of who we are, why people are prone to developing certain ...