In the lab, various phases of drug development occur in life sciences as new drugs and therapies are discovered and developed through extensive research. Labs are then used to ensure quality control ...

When people get a coronavirus test, their deep nasal swab is sent to a lab for analysis. The University of Washington Virology Division in Seattle was one of the first labs to process the tests. Chris ...

Next generation sequencing is beginning to replace traditional DNA methods in food safety testing. As this trend continues, sequencing will no longer be the time intensive process it once was.

Inside one transparent plastic container on a rack of shelves is someone’s big toe. Inside another, someone else’s uterus. In the complex and bureaucratic health care system, this bright room and its ...

Wearing blue lab coats and rubber gloves, microbiologists bustled through a lab at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on Tuesday morning, charged with a new mission: To test as many patients as possible ...

Centuries of scientific research and development have led to techniques that have set the foundation for the future of automated research with high-throughput sample processing (HTSP). The world is ...

Portable lab with the capacity to screen millions of bacteria in water samples could boost water safety. A suitcase-size portable testing laboratory could cut back the time and money spent on ...