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 ...

Do you need to test out of isolation? While testing out of isolation is not required, the CDC says those who choose to should use an antigen test and not a PCR test.

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 ...