George Whitesides, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, sees great beauty and possibility in simplicity. He’s also got a passion for bringing diagnostics to underprivileged, overpopulated areas. Laboratorians have heard talk of lab-on-a-chip technology before, and Whitesides has developed a prototype of a paper ''chip'' that may be used in ...

The A1C assay continues to gain ground as a potential replacement test for the diagnosis of diabetes after an international committee of experts recommended the test at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions this weekend. The assay is traditionally used to monitor how well a patient is controlling his diabetes, but may be a more ...

An interesting technology may some day change the way many enzymes, hormones and proteins are measured and at-home blood glucose monitoring is performed. Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc. (MASTInc), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Micromem Technologies Inc., a Canadian-based company involved in Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) ...