A new, low-cost “lab on a chip” performs complex laboratory assays from a drop of blood within minutes, according to a report by Nature Medicine. The device, known as mChip, employs microfluidics, the ...

In a recent study published in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, researchers evaluated the performance of a compact diagnostic assay that can accurately and rapidly diagnose lactose ...

Spanning the Gap between Synthetic Lipid Chemisty and Signal Transduction Biology Many scientists are familiar with lipids as hydrophobic molecules that form biological cell membranes. However, ...

Nitrate and phosphate-containing compounds create a serious problem when released in water bodies without treatment. Phosphate and nitrate are major nutrients needed by living microorganisms for their ...

They began to test other plastics in the lab, and found that some, but not all, showed a similar effect, but which ones were problematic was hard to predict. For instance, the 1.5 ml microfuge tubes ...