Molecular diagnostic testing combines laboratory testing with the precision of molecular biology and has revolutionized the way clinical and public health laboratories investigate the human, viral, and microbial genomes, their genes, and the products they encode.
Molecular diagnostic tests are increasingly being used, and have supplanted numerous conventional tests, in many areas of laboratory medicine including oncology, infectious diseases, clinical chemistry, and clinical genetics..
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is an immunological assay commonly used to measure antibodies, antigens, proteins and glycoproteins in biological samples.
Over the past three decades, ELISA has become vital to many areas of research and has shown to have many applications—from detecting food and environmental contaminants to screening for HIV and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) antibodies.
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are easy-to-use and less technically and time demanding than classical serological techniques.
Allergies are hypersensitivities that involve reactions of the immune system to substances that do not cause reactions in most people. The substances that trigger the reaction are called allergens.
Allergies affect as many as 40% of people worldwide and have become increasingly common in recent decades.Several types of tests can be used to determine whether a person is allergic to a specific substance. Because there are diverse kinds of allergens, appropriate testing is important to identify and manage allergies.
The life sciences comprise all fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings.