G. Whitesides and his team at Harvard University have developed a prototype for an inexpensive, highly practical rapid test that can be used to carry out several biological tests simultaneously on a ...

Most chemical reactions perform best when shaken or stirred. Active mixing maximizes the chances that reactant molecules will find one another. But chemists who are exploiting small-volume reactions ...

This press release is also available in German. Testing biological fluids such as blood and urine is essential for both diagnostics and routine checks. In remote, non-industrialized regions or for ...

A test for E. coli bacteria involving sheets of paper patterned by laser may assist doctors in developing countries and low-resource environments to identify infections more rapidly. Developed by the ...

The high cost of medical diagnostics and the importance of detecting infectious diseases in a timely, cost-effective manner have increased the importance of point-of-care (POC) testing. Lateral flow ...