It's with an eye toward protection that laboratories have turned to employing the use of biosafety cabinets.

Raman spectroscopy opens new approaches in clinical diagnostics for many medical conditions.

The food industry is doing a pretty good job of ensuring that people don’t eat things that give them an allergic reaction

Although some fingerprint analysis is new, the concept—using fingerprints for identification—started centuries ago.

Next-generation (NGS) sequencing brings scalability and sensitivity to diagnostics in ways that traditional DNA analysis could not

In many cases metals can contaminate the environment, and scientists and public health workers rely on tools like ICP-MS to deliver accurate analysis.

Michael Barkan is a senior informatics consultant at CSols Inc., a North American laboratory informatics consultancy with offices in Canada and the US.

Digital PCR (dPCR) is a gene amplification method particularly suited to detecting and quantifying rare genes.

As food is raised in one spot, processed in another, and shipped around the world, it’s no wonder that food safety creates an international concern.

For many scientists, research is nothing like what we see in TV and movies.