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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Point-of-care medical diagnostics technologies offer a fast and cheap way to help patients as they require no experienced personnel or expensive laboratory tests. Several innovations such as a DNA ...

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.

Testing soldiers to see if they have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons could soon be much faster and easier, thanks to MIT researchers who are helping to develop a tiny diagnostic device ...

A mini version of lab equipment that identifies chemicals in suspect substances could someday help perform on-the-ground testing for chemical warfare agents. Collecting samples of sarin, VX or other ...