Fast-forward 12 months, and RT-qPCR is now ... Armed only with the virus’s genetic sequence, researchers needed to find the best locations for PCR primers and probes on viral RNA.

This is SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It's a type of RNA virus, some of which mutate practically every time they replicate. SARS-CoV-2 is actually one of the rare RNA viruses that ...

The Remarkable and Mysterious Coronavirus Genome The SARS-CoV-2 genome is a strand of RNA that is about 29,900 bases long--near the limit for RNA viruses. Influenza has about 13,500 bases ...

As the United States enters its fourth month of response to the COVID ... an RNA genome, so they need to first be reverse-transcribed into DNA. Then, the DNA is examined by the PCR method using ...

This technology, integrated with the Compute Wormhole, facilitates the on-chain analysis of genetic similarities between two viruses: SARS-CoV-2 (sequenced in Wuhan, 2019) and SARS-CoV (sequenced ...

TaqPath 1-Step RT-qPCR Master Mixes for RNA and virus detection TaqPath 1-Step RT-qPCR Master Mixes are 4× formulations developed for 1-step pathogen detection or gene expression workflows using ...

While COVID vaccines are unlikely to trigger this mechanism (as they don’t use the full RNA sequence as the virus), this research opens up possibilities for developing new drugs and vaccines ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is called the novel coronavirus. But the family of coronaviruses has long been studied, so what makes this one different? Join Kristin Omberg of the Pacific Northwest ...

The outbreak comes five years after the world was first alerted to the emergence of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan ... HMPV is a single-stranded RNA virus that spreads through respiratory droplets ...