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 scientists studied two lung cancer patients where they found immune cells in the tumors that corresponded with the aforementioned antigens.

Viruses have been present for billions of years, affecting the gamut of life from single celled to multicellular organisms. But these diminutive infectious agents don't leave behind fossils. Therefore, understanding their origin and evolution has proven difficult.

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.

Millions of years ago, the Earth's marine and terrestrial environments played host to all sorts of carnivorous creatures with sharp teeth. Among these behemoths were a variety crocodyliforms, some of them growing to as much as 12 meters.

A major earthquake in the Pacific pushed a massive tsunami across Japan, prompting the meltdown of three nuclear cores, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, on March 11, 2011.

The heartbreak of losing multiple pregnancies is known to countless women worldwide. But a British team of doctors says they've made a breakthrough that will not only explain the recurrent loss - but may also fix it. Read more...