A Facebook user claimed that Minute Maid Peach Punch tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid test. The test appeared to display positive results, but that doesn’t mean the test detected the virus.

Cold, flu and COVID-19 season brings that now-familiar ritual: swab, wait, look at the result. But what if, instead of taking 15 minutes or more, a test could quickly determine whether you have ...

COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. It is the first ...

Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could ...

A research team said it is paving the way for an easier detection of virus variants within indoor spaces. Scientists have developed a novel air monitor with special technology that is said to quickly ...