Staff and military personnel at a Florida nursing home secure COVID-19 test samples. (Pfc. Orion Oettel/U.S. Army/) Maureen Ferran is an associate professor of biology at Rochester Institute of ...

The RNA basically encodes all of the instructions that that virus needs in order to infect a cell and go to work, you know, turning that cell into a factory to make more copies of the virus. So the ...

March 15 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the ...

2025 update: This federal program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. Federal health officials have justified the millions they have spent on device ...

For Sarah Bowen, it all started with a sore throat. Not the kind of searing pain she’d feel with strep, she said, but a throat irritation that just didn’t feel right. “By the end of the day, it just ...

How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the U.S.? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, and experts at top medical centers say it is time to ...