Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes and also screen chemicals as potential drugs by turning everyday ...

Usually, scientists study these changes by testing proteins in a test tube or in human cells. But those methods can be slow, expensive and sometimes hard to do. So the UC San Diego researchers ...

She recommends a couple of tools to aid in monitoring water quality: a handheld TDS meter and sulfate test strips. Both these tools are affordable and easy to use. If the screening indicates the ...

This version accommodates the tiny capillary tubes, microhematocrit tubes, for processing raw blood. This test can calculate ... an old drive into the kind of centrifuge that accepts larger ...