Swabs and reagents are used to collect and process samples for coronavirus testing. The sudden worldwide demand for these materials has created a bottleneck and slowed down testing. Government ...

They're the tip of the testing spear in the fight against the coronavirus. Reagents. It's a fancy word for the main ingredients of any chemical-based test, which in this pandemic includes inorganic ...

Politicians in the UK and the Netherlands claim that delays in the rollout of COVID-19 testing are because of a shortage of reagents—typically enzymes and buffers—used in antigen tests to determine ...

Public health officials are warning that a massive ramp-up in the number of tests for the coronavirus coupled with disruptions to the global supply chain are creating new shortages of some of the ...

Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to the use of, ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectrum Veterinary, the U.S. leader in companion-animal allergy testing and treatment, has incorporated a new blocking reagent to advance its already fully automated allergy ...

A global and national shortage of critical supplies needed to carry out COVID-19 testing threatens to hamstring the United State's beleaguered pandemic response. Researchers across the country are ...

The coronavirus crisis is in large part a testing crisis. We are reading about tests. Arguing about tests. And, in many cases, struggling mightily to obtain tests for ourselves. But while test ...