The FDA approved the first COVID-19 diagnostic test for pooled sampling. The agency reissued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Quest Diagnostics’ SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR, allowing for the testing of ...

Many schools around the U.S. are set to reopen soon, and with daily COVID-19 case counts and percent positive rates still high, a more effective public health measure to track cases of the virus is ...

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, ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mirimus, Inc., a leader in conducting high-volume, high-quality PCR testing, today announced the publication of a scientific paper, titled, "Pooled Surveillance ...

This article was updated to include new information about LabCorp and Stanford Health Care’s pool testing efforts. As pandemic re-opening efforts show mixed success, across the U.S., there have been ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Max Rose (D-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) has urged both state and federal leaders to adopt pooled sampling as a means of increasing coronavirus (COVID-19) testing ...

Biomonitoring involves the assessment of human or animal populations by measuring organic or biological compounds or their metabolites in the body fluids or tissues of individuals in those populations ...

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, ...

The State Council has approved a 20:1 pooled sampling approach for mass nucleic acid testing, as the country is facing a head-on challenge from the highly contagious Omicron variant. The new approach ...

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 identify ...