Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...

Just a few swabs from a handful of leaves can say a lot about what animals are roaming in the area. Two dozen leaf swabs from plants in Uganda’s Kibale National Park revealed a stunningly accurate ...

A new study has revealed promising progress in developing a non-invasive sampling method to detect early signs of Parkinson's disease—up to seven years before motor symptoms appear—by analyzing the ...

Lancing a finger elicits minimal pain in humans and is applied routinely to obtain small volumes of blood for clinical diagnostics. A modified lancet bleeding method and several blood sampling ...

Nasopharyngeal swabbing — using a plastic stick to retrieve a sample from the back of your throat and nasal passage — is the current gold standard in collecting specimens to test for infections, ...

Thea van de Mortel teaches into the Griffith University Infection Prevention and Control postgraduate programs. We’re now pretty used to swabbing our nose to test for COVID when we have a scratchy ...