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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...