Grants, Contracts, RFAs, and RFPs. 1  A grant is a funding mechanism for a particular scientific inquiry that you generate. You come up with the idea, they decide if it's a good idea, and they provide funding for you to do it. In contrast, a contract is a funding mechanism of government agencies or other organizations to obtain specified services or goods.
1 These tests are very good at identifying chlamydia. 2  A test that is positive almost always means the problem is there and is unlikely to be a false-positive test result. 3  A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is an example of a nucleic acid amplification test. 4  This test can also be done on a urine sample.
November 30, 2009 (Orlando, Florida) â Testing for Clostridium difficile toxin with real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can improve the laboratory diagnoses of C difficileâassociated diarrhea, compared with A/B enzyme immunoassay (EIA), according to results from a new study presented here at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 2009 ...