Pooling of patient samples is commonly used in immunoassays and molecular diagnostics to increase testing capacity while reducing reagent costs for the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious ...

With results from COVID-19 tests routinely taking one week or longer to complete, some labs are trying a new approach called sample pooling. The idea is labs can save coveted supplies if they test ...

On July 18, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for sample pooling of specimens when using the SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR diagnostic test from Quest ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to a new approach to coronavirus testing that combines test samples in batches instead of running them one by one, speeding ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced it has issued an emergency use authorization that allows the laboratory Quest Diagnostics to pool samples from up to four individuals to test ...

Last Friday, the University’s COVID-19 testing lab announced via email that it will be switching to a “pooling” method for some saliva samples. Pooling refers to the combining of multiple people’s ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to allow sample pooling ...

US health officials are increasingly proposing pooled testing -- mixing several people's biological samples and examining them in a single test -- to drastically boost the country's capacity to ...

Amid the widespread outbreak of the COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2, the development of test methods that can efficiently and precisely identify positive carriers is cited as one of the most important ...

INTEGRA’s automated pipetting solutions are helping scientists meet the challenge of efficiently pooling potentially infectious samples prior to testing for disease surveillance and diagnostics, ...