Technology and innovation

A material found in diapers could change the way large tissue samples are analyzed

What does analysis of the last five years of literature on prostate specific antigen tell us about the priorities of the field and the major contributors to it?

How smartphone power, coupled with the scale of its adoption globally, offers a compelling platform for diagnostics.

Sensitive and specific point-of-care testing with plasmonic gold chips

Point-of-care molecular diagnosis could make a big difference to disease control in remote communities

Biopsy tissue sample preparation in a tube promises to be cheap, fast, reproducible and automated.

A new method of lens production brings high-quality digital pathology into the realm of the smartphone

Gene expression profiling could reduce endometriosis surgery and increase diagnosis.

A new biosensor technique takes advantage of bacteriophages to rapidly detect drug-resistant pathogens.

Initial results suggest that a graphene biochip is faster and more sensitive than ELISA