South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can't detect drug-resistant TB, raising questions about how much diagnostic accuracy a ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Intelligenome, a global leader in CRISPR-based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) technology, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a research and development subaward agreement with Cornell ...

Aiming to improve the treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF), researchers at Caltech have created new tool for visualizing infections in the lungs. The buildup of thick mucous called sputum in the lungs ...

Avalon GloboCare Corp (NASDAQ:ALBT) announced that Laboratory Services MSO (LSM) is now offering an in-house laboratory-developed test to detect tuberculosis using a patient’s sputum sample. Avalon ...

Dr. Tony Hu, originally from China, came to the United States in 2012 for his master's in chemistry and his doctorate in biological engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. After two years in ...

Your doctor can order this test to find out if you have tuberculosis (TB) or another type of bacterial infection. TB was very common at one time. However, it’s now rare in the United States. According ...

South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can’t detect ...