They're the tip of the testing spear in the fight against the coronavirus. Reagents. It's a fancy word for the main ingredients of any chemical-based test, which in this pandemic includes inorganic ...

Fri, April 24, 2020 Published on Apr. 23, 2020 Published on 2020-04-23T20:12:31+07:00 shortage of reagents is interfering with the government's efforts to ramp up much-needed mass testing for the ...

A major roadblock to large scale testing for coronavirus infection in the developing world is a shortage of key chemicals, or reagents, needed for the test, specifically the ones used to extract the ...