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.

Takotsubo syndrome, first described in the medical literature in 1990, has come to be known as "broken-heart syndrome." Grief, anger or fear in excess can cause serious overstimulation of the nervous system, which leads to heart arrhythmias or outright sudden cardiac death. But the same emotional pathways can be jolted by extreme happiness - leading to the same danger of a heart failure, according to a new study.

Supergerms cause 1 out of 7 infections caught in hospitals, health officials said Thursday. The bugs include the staph infection MRSA (MUR'-suh) and five other bacteria resistant to many kinds of antibiotics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

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.

In a study of worms, neuroscientists have discovered a gene that plays a critical role in controlling the switch between alternative behavioral states, which for humans include hunger and fullness, or sleep and wakefulness.

If your neighborhood is well-lit at night, you may not be sleeping well, according to a new study.

In a new study, scientists are the first to sequence the complete genomes of individual neurons and to produce live mice carrying neuronal genomes in all of their cells.