Food contaminants and adulterants fall under many categories, all with significant potential to adversely affect brands, profits, and health
Just how big is biomedical data? Well, genomic data alone could soon swamp YouTube™ and Twitter™ as the world’s largest data generator.
In forensic work, the smallest detail can make the difference in solving a crime. Those details can come from genetic evidence, such as DNA. Collecting the DNA is one thing, analyzing it is another.
Technological advances have enabled us to analyze increasingly lower concentrations of chemicals
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.
Scientists have imaged live cells for more than 100 years
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.
Increasingly, two-dimensional CBAs are viewed as artificial constructs since cells occur naturally in 3D.
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.
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