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 swab of the tongue could make it easier to do tuberculosis testing and diagnose millions of cases earlier.

Mumbai: Less than three months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended tongue swabs to detect tuberculosis (TB) ...

Increased Sample Throughput and Consistency in COVID-19 and Other Swab-Based Tests is Supported through Use of the Novel RHINOstic™ Automated Nasal Swab WALTHAM, Mass. & WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...

Rapid and accurate diagnostic tests are essential for controlling the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Although the current standard involves testing of nasopharyngeal swab specimens by quantitative reverse ...

Hamilton Company and Rhinostics, an early-stage Harvard University spin-out company, are combining their respective strengths to improve the speed and quality of nasal and nasopharyngeal sample ...

A few weeks ago, Perry, who lives in Chicago's northwest suburbs, started feeling symptoms of what he thought was COVID-19. The 64-year-old and his wife drove from their house to Waukegan to get ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rhinostics, Inc., an innovator in sample collection technologies, today announced that it has received Health Canada approval for sale of its RHINOstic™ Automated ...

As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used. The study led by ...

Researchers have developed a fast, non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis that could transform global TB diagnosis.