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 ...

Scientists have developed an accurate COVID-19 test doesn't use scarce reagents, paving the way for wide testing in both developing countries and industrialized nations like the United States, where ...

Unable to afford expensive diagnostic machines, government hospitals are often given them free of cost. But there is a ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump continues to tout the country’s increased testing capabilities in his coronavirus briefings. He says that there’s a “tremendous amount” of unused testing capacity in states ...