A British ex-police officer previously fact-checked by Reuters has shared misleading claims about COVID-19 on Facebook. Mark Sexton uploaded several inaccurate statements to Facebook on July 12 (here) ...

The art of medicine is taught by the bedside. It involves detailed history-taking, followed by a physical examination which employs the senses of the physician. Humans, however, prefer concrete ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Recent study findings suggested that ...

Since its global emergence over a year ago, the PCR test – a molecular test that diagnoses infection by detecting genetic material – has been used to distinguish the COVID-19 positives from the ...

Dubious websites and viral posts falsely claim that the World Health Organization changed COVID-19 testing protocols for political reasons following Joe Biden’s inauguration and admitted that ...

Real-time PCR or quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is an advancement of the standard PCR technique, which enables continuous monitoring of the reaction and collection of data in real time.

In its formative years PCR and its intellectual possessors had to go through some legal wrangling over the originality of the technique. In point of fact, a 13-year earlier paper by Nobelist Gobind ...

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a heritable disorder of the connective tissue. Mutations in the ABCC6 gene could be linked to this disease and, just recently, the c.3421C>T mutation was also ...

Figure 1: Description and proof of principle for balanced PCR. As an alternative to the separation PCR step, LN1- and LN2-ligated plasmid DNA were mixed in different proportions and used in a ...

In the six decades since Watson and Crick identified the double helical structure of DNA, a series of elegant and powerful experiments has established the broad outlines of how genetic information is ...