Rapid Micro Methods Blog

New Diagnostics to be Highlighted at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam

A number of companies will be highlighting their new technologies at the 29th Annual European Congre…

byRapidMicro •April 09, 2019

FDA, CDC, and CMS Launch Task Force to Facilitate Rapid Availability of Diagnostic Tests During Public Health Emergencies

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Cent…

byRapidMicro •March 02, 2019

CRISPR Used for Infectious Disease Diagnostics

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) are short, repeated DNA sequences …

byRapidMicro •April 27, 2018

Recent Report Calls for Rapid Diagnostics to Slash Antibiotics Use

Faster diagnostic tools that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections are urgently nee…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2015

EU Suports Development of New Detection Technologies for Bacterial Pathogens

RAPTADIAG is a small or medium-scale focused research project supported by the European Commission u…

byRapidMicro •February 21, 2015

World's Earliest Diagnostic Test for Ebola, Within 24 Hours of Infection

Marking a critical turning point in the fight against Ebola, a new Rapid Ebola Pre-Symptom Screening…

byRapidMicro •December 02, 2014

WHO: Rapid, Sensitive, Safe and Simple Ebola Diagnostic Tests Urgently Needed

The goal of interrupting chains of Ebola virus transmission depends heavily on laboratory support. T…

byRapidMicro •November 18, 2014

WHO: Countries Seek Improvements in Malaria Tests

Manufactures and implementers of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), for checking malaria parasites, ha…

byRapidMicro •December 14, 2013

PCR: 30 Years Young and Still Going Strong

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a molecular biology method that exponentially amplifies ver…

byRapidMicro •November 25, 2013