In food testing laboratories, precision weighing is not preparatory work that precedes the real analysis — it is integral to it. Gravimetric methods are the reference standard for determining moisture ...

Accurate pipetting is a fundamental requirement for reliable pathogen detection and microbial analysis in food laboratories. Food lab pipetting accuracy determines whether serial dilutions are correct ...

Influenza is a common disease that occurs in yearly epidemics throughout the world. Although the majority of infected individuals will exhibit a self-limited acute febrile illness or remain ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It's either inaccurate—missing up to ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world’s top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It’s either inaccurate — missing up to ...

Makers of medical tests that have long escaped government oversight will have about four years to show that their new offerings deliver accurate results, under a government rule vigorously opposed by ...

Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...

If your cancer lab test isn’t valid, wrong results could mean you don’t get a drug that could save your life. Or it could mean you take a drug that won’t help you but will bombard you with side ...