Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...

We have written before about what specific blood panels reveal and how vitamin deficiencies show up in your bloodwork. Those articles focused on what the numbers mean once you have them. But there is ...

I got an advance copy of Anil Ananthaswamy's forthcoming Through Two Doors at Once a while back, and while I was too busy with my own book to read it in time to blurb it, I did manage to finish it ...

WORCESTER — A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute can identify and trap the metastatic cancer cells in a small amount of blood drawn from a patient, the school ...

Most at-home lab testing devices like Scanadu and Cor are still waiting for FDA approval, but simple lab testing can still be done in the confines of your own home and then shipped to a lab and that’s ...

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HUMANKIND has created a new species for the first time. Not by building it from genes, as Craig Venter said he was planning to do last week (New Scientist, 30 November, p 12). And not by millions of ...

Detecting disease-causing bacteria just got easier, as a simple color change could revolutionize detection and improve food safety. Engineers and biochemists at McMaster university have brought their ...