Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test strips, also called lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs). They enable easy detection of ...

Public health workers will soon have a new tool at their disposal to thwart a spreading danger to users of illicit drugs: xylazine test strips. The new testing kits will allow health departments, ...

Federal funding can now be used to buy test strips that show if the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl is in a drug before a person takes it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said ...

Young adults who use drugs find fentanyl test strips useful, residue testing more convenient and testing at home more private, a Brown study found Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid so potent that a ...

Beaumont researchers say they have developed an accurate test to detect the new coronavirus in blood, urine or saliva, with results as fast as 35-40 minutes. "We need more testing options if we’re ...

Researchers have developed a rapid testing method using a simple paper strip that can detect E. coli in recreational water within minutes. The new tool can close the gap between outbreak and detection ...

A urine test that can rapidly detect acute kidney injury is described in a new study published in Kidney International. “The methodology is identical to the off-the-shelf pregnancy test,” says Vishal ...

The small, rectangular strips that quickly detects whether a deadly synthetic opioid known as fentanyl is present in drugs are no longer illegal in East Baton Rouge Parish. A unanimous vote by Metro ...

Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, has announced that the first Affimer-based rapid test strips to detect SARS-COV-2 spike protein have been developed and ...