You must have noticed the sudden change in pitch of a siren on a police car zooming past. That’s the Doppler effect. Scientists at Purdue University have now used the Doppler effect to look inside ...

Background: Demonstration of equivalent amounts of the same active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) between generic and innovator products (pharmaceutical equivalence) is a basic requirement of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. Researchers have developed a novel nanoparticle DNA ...

MOST workers in microbiological assay will have had experience of the well-established assay procedure that will occasionally give sub-optimal growth in some of the tubes, and hence discordant ...

Whole genome sequencing of bacterial isolates via next-generation sequencing is becoming a standard approach for clinical microbiology and bio-surveillance labs seeking to conduct outbreak ...

In addition to their roles as disease vectors, bacteria and other microbes play an important part in modern science as essential tools for advancing biological research and synthetic biology. Methods ...

Daniel Blanchard (left) is a molecular biologist and geneticist by training who, before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific (MA, USA), spent many years in academia, working mainly on RNA biology, RNAi ...

Researchers and therapeutic manufacturers have long relied on classical microbiological methods to check their samples and surfaces for microbial contamination, primarily using lengthy ...