portability

 Increasingly, R&D organizations are looking for real-time measurements, acquired with little or no human intervention

Researchers are working on a portable diagnostic system that can be loaded in a cargo van and driven on a cross-country tour of experimental fusion reactor prototypes 

Jan Huisken, a medical engineering investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research and co-founder of light sheet microscopy, has a new project meant to bridge the technology gap

The growing market for handheld raman analyzers features plenty of innovation

New POC Connect data management smartphone application enhances DiaSpect Tm’s use for rapid, remote hemoglobin analysis

Diagnostic tools that can be used in the field, while the patient waits, would be a critical tool for fighting the Zika epidemic

Looking at the latest portable offerings in soil and water testing, plant health and identification, sample management, and testing of raw materials, components, and finished products.

New instrument is small enough to function within a smartphone, enabling portable light analysis

Portable gas chromatography (pGC) is all about tradeoffs. Users demand value, reliability, ease of use, ergonomics, and measurement quality but with analysis limited to gases.

A forensics investigator dusts a crime scene for fingerprints. When she finds one, she reaches to her holster, pulls out a handheld device, and aims it at the fingerprint. The device captures the image and also the chemical composition. That chemical analysis reveals that the person who left the print had touched ephedrine—an illegal drug, which is a stimulant that goes by many street names, including meow. With this information, the investigators can use biometrics—the fingerprint— to identify the person and the chemical analysis to start piecing together the crime.