According to the World Health Organization, somewhere between 130 and 150 million people around the globe suffer from chronic hepatitis C infection. As the virus is usually asymptomatic it can go ...

A cost-effective one-step test that screens, detects and confirms hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections has been developed by researchers. Current blood-based HCV testing requires two steps and can be ...

A scientific team has expanded next-generation sequencing to create an off-the-shelf tool that does simultaneous whole-exome analysis of both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The test will aid genetic ...

Orange, Calif. -- UC Irvine Health researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that screens, detects and confirms hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Dr. Ke-Qin Hu, director of ...