Advances in diagnostic methods have always helped in improved patient care. Techniques that may hard to digest today will become a norm tomorrow. To add more surprise to it, researchers in the USA have shown how host mRNA can be used to predict viral infections.

The group found that thee human mRNAs can correlate with viral infections- these are CXCL10, IFT2, and OASL. Moreover, the researchers have developed a technique called qPCR to detect these mRNAs. Share your opinion about new development in diagnosis.