UTRECHT, Netherlands — Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and ...

Allergen Alert mini lab is a portable device that tests food for allergens in minutes. It can detect gluten, lactose, and ...

Allergen Alert got my attention at CES. The company, a spin-off of global diagnostics firm, bioMérieux, is trying to make ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have created a shoebox-sized laboratory that can do blood testing in remote, low-resource settings, quickly determining from a drop of blood whether a person ...

Anyone who develops an AI solution sometimes goes on a journey into the unknown. At least at the beginning, researchers and designers do not always know whether their algorithms and AI models will ...

Blood vessels (red) penetrate the outer layers of the organoid (blue), with growth into the organoid core (green). UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures Mini brains concocted in a lab are one step ...

Scientists have been growing miniature models of human brains in the lab for a few years, and now it seems these organoids have passed a pretty major milestone. Researchers from the University of ...

A paper in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Lab on a Chip, explains how the team at MIT used what they refer to as “interlocking injection-molded blocks” — again, seriously, it’s bricks — to build a ...