Mumbai: TB diagnosis pushed back months as rapid test cartridges run out

Mumbai: For weeks, a shortage of cartridges for rapid tuberculosis tests has hampered the city's ability to diagnose ...

Student needed blood to survive, it gave her HIV: How gaps in transfusion safety are affecting young thalassaemia patients

As the National Blood Transfusion Bill, 2025 gets introduced in Parliament, patients recount how unsafe screening changed ...
IEEE

Timing Mechanism for a Low-Cost, Single Use, Nucleic Acid Amplification Diagnostic Test

Abstract: Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) are used to diagnose infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), SARS-CoV-2, and Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Conventional testing requires a bench ...

Alveo Technologies and Global Animal Health Partner to Deploy National-Scale Molecular Avian Influenza Surveillance Across Egypt

Alveo Technologies, a leader in molecular sensing and diagnostics with its proprietary molecular detection technology, today ...
India Today

HIV infections in thalassaemic kids expose deep cracks in India's blood banking system

The discovery that six thalassaemic children in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district have contracted human immunodeficiency virus ...

Yenos Analytical Launches the Yenos Test, First-of-its-Kind Multi-Cancer Early Detection Urine Test

-Nationwide access enabled through FedEx with prepaid shipping both ways.
Hindustan Times

Dhurandhar box office collection day 4: Ranveer Singh film beats Sikandar, passes Monday test and crosses ₹125 crore

Dhurandhar had a good start, but made the subsequent days even better with jumps of 14% and 34% over the next two days. This took its domestic collection to ₹103 crore after just three days. On Monday ...
Frontiers

Preliminary survey of dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses by nucleic acid test in blood donors in Shenzhen, China

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in blood donors and to preliminarily assess the potential risk of arbovirus ...
IEEE

Improvement of the Microfluidic CRISPR/Cas Assay with on-Chip Cleavage for Target-Amplification-Free Nucleic Acid Detection

Abstract: Point-of-care devices are imminent for effective and timely treatment. One group of diagnostic markers are nucleic acids. The detection of viral RNA was relevant in the recent SARS-CoV-2 ...
BioSpace

WHITE PAPER: Optimized extraction solutions for the recovery of high-quality microbial nucleic acids from vaginal samples

The OMNIgene™•XTRACT ULTRA kit enables the optimal recovery of large quantities of high-quality DNA and RNA from a wide range of sample types including vaginal samples collected with the ...