With the requirement to increase testing of agricultural and food products for the presence of aflatoxins, reliable and convenient testing methods that utilize readily available standard laboratory tools are in demand. For the general laboratory, newer technologies for aflatoxin analysis may be financially unattainable. This app note focuses on the innovative method developed to accurately test aflatoxins using general equipment.

The role of gut microbes in such issues is not completely understood, but now, in two studies, scientists have identified intestinal bacteria and viruses as possible sources of such inflammation and disease.

The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm's proposal to deploy a genetically modified mosquito to try to stop transmission of the disease.

What Makes Your Laboratory Unique? Your people, your protocols, the work you do to change the world - and the instruments and equipment that help you to reach your goals. You shouldn't have to fit your workflows around standard equipment. Your Equipment should be adaptable to you, while operating within the safety, performance, and compliance parameters that your work requires. In short, your laboratory equipment should work the way you do.

Researchers have discovered that a deficiency in a key protein that regulates immune system warning signals could be a new biomarker for colorectal cancer, the second largest cancer killer in the United States.

Empatica has developed a medical-quality consumer wristband, called Embrace, that monitors stress signals to detect potentially deadly seizures and alert wearers and caregivers, so they can intervene.

Innovative software tools allowed the scientists to construct accurate "maps" of gene networks for about 400 different human cell and tissue types, ranging from immune cells to brain tissues, whereas previous studies were limited to just one or few tissues.