A discovery could pave the way for future studies aimed at developing solutions to ALS and other vexing neuromuscular diseases. While the brain is composed of two types of cells, glia tend to receive ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

The ability of microarrays to measure thousands of RNA transcripts at one time allows for the characterization of cells and tissues in greater depth than was previously possible, but has not yet led ...

If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...

Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during order transcription or administration of medication. To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify ...