When approaching the construction of a single product, it's easy to take the time to use the finest materials, measure carefully, align pieces, and make necessary adjustments to provide the best result. Carpenters choose their preferred wood, work with the grain, and avoid machine jolting knots. Medical instruments are painstakingly honed and tested to ensure a tool that will perform reliably..
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Individual plant cells can reveal how certain plants thrive in a variety of environments. Studying plant cells in single cell formats promises richer, more detailed data sets than pooling all the information together. However, plant cells can be difficult to isolate without killing the cell. Roots and shoots are often tough and fibrous while leaves are typically broad and tender. Ripping apart..
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Wouldn’t it be great to walk into your neighborhood pharmacy and find out what was making you ill in the time it took you to buy some cough drops? Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices have the potential to revolutionize health care by translating complex diagnostic assays into user-friendly platforms. An additional advantage of LOC is a reduction in the required volume of sample and reagents. This..
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-- Research Scientists discuss the development of a low-cost POC RT-PCR platform that accomplishes the detection of RNA pathogens (Ebola, Zika, Chikungunya virus). Rapid ID of Ebola for low resource areas -- A major challenge of diagnosing infectious diseases in low resource areas is a lack of fully equipped laboratories for quantitative detection of pathogens. Even in high resource areas such..
