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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday reissued an emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics to authorize a coronavirus test with pooled samples. In an FDA news release, ...

On June 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted updates to their Molecular Diagnostic Templates for developers that intend their assay to be used for pooled patient samples or for ...

A testing strategy that helped fight HIV could offer the United States a window into the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. The White House Coronavirus Task Force is considering sample pooling, ...

BURLINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LabCorp (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company that is deeply integrated in guiding patient care, today announced it received an Emergency Use ...

(RTTNews) - LabCorp (LH) said that it received an Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitting diagnostic testing of groups of individuals for active COVID-19 ...

A new study from Pakistan suggests 'smart sample pooling' using population grouping with algorithms as a solution to the unavailability of test kits for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

The new procedure will help to meet the high demand for testing in the mass coronavirus screening programmes needed in the early identification and isolation of asymptomatic individuals. The pooling ...

With COVID-19 cases surging again in many states, health officials worry that a flood of potential new cases may strain the nation's testing capacity. The situation has led some to suggest the U.S.

Here, we describe a method of systematic PCR screening with multiround sample pooling for the isolation of rare PCR-positive samples. As an example, we have applied this protocol to the recovery of ...