For a long time, we viewed COVID testing as something you do for your own health, but home PCR testing represents a way you can easily protect those vulnerable people in your life without cutting them ...

Each household is eligible for four at-home COVID tests, though those who did not take advance of September's round can get up to eight.

COVID-19 PCR tests are not linked to human or reproductive cloning, according to Matthew Binnicker, the director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic.

A new study finds that rapid tests are most likely to detect COVID-19 on day 4 of symptoms, when virus levels typically peak.

RT-PCR Tests Polymerase chain reaction tests, also called molecular tests, look for genetic material from the virus in a nasal sample.

A false positive result is possible with a rapid COVID-19 test. It happens when a person does not have COVID-19 but still tests positive for the disease.

PCR tests for COVID-19 cannot be used for human cloning. Molecular cloning, or gene cloning, that is described in a 2015 paper about using PCR to copy individual genes is an entirely different ...