It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

Johns Hopkins mechanical engineer Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang has been working for almost 20 years to bring sophisticated medical testing to a lab on a chip, making advanced screening techniques so portable ...

Do you remember James Bond film Casino Royale? After being poisoned, the agent uses a portable diagnostic kit to identify the toxic substance and alert his HQ in London. Such type of technology is not ...

One of the first research Institutes to be part of the MinION Access Programme (MAP), The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), UK, plans to use the miniaturized sequencing device to conduct live ...

An international study found the portable MiniDock MTB tuberculosis test, using sputum or tongue swabs, matched the accuracy of leading lab-based diagnostics and met World Health Organization ...

Engineers with the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into your phone, connecting it automatically to a doctor's office through a custom app UC developed. The lab the ...

If you had any laboratory education at all in your BSEE degree program, you probably remember going to a lab at a fixed time and doing a project or experiment on what was probably dated equipment.

University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada, have developed a portable unit for genetic testing about the size of a shoebox, which has the same capability as a lab full of expensive ...