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 ...
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 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the SalivaDirect PCR COVID-19 test created by the Yale School of Public Health for use with pooled saliva samples. Pooled testing allows labs ...
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 ...
Laboratory supervisor Denise Bolton explained: “We adopted pooled testing in summer 2020, initially constructing the sample pools manually. However, the additional step complicated the workflow, ...
Pooled sampling of COVID-19 swab specimens is now allowed under a reissued emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Quest Diagnostics SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR test, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...
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, ...