Clinical

The centuries-old European patent system is adapting to keep pace with personalized medicine.

The best clinical diagnostic tools must balance accuracy with cost and ease-of-use.

Chasing the dragon – with poppy seed bagels.

Two tissue engineering technologies provide realistic in vivo facsimiles of disease for high-throughput drug analysis.

The talk of TED but a few months ago, uChek, an iPhone-based urinalysis system, came almost immediately under fire from the FDA. There’s an app(roval) for that…

Jumping on the breath biomarker bandwagon is tempting, but a number of failures to observe the ... fundamental rules of good science have cast doubt over the ... technique. Here, the authors describe best practice, from collection to clinical evaluation.

Three gurus describe significant breakthroughs in micro and nanoscale analytical techniques and envisage where they might take us next.

A new solid phase extraction technology has been developed to speed up sample preparation by eliminating steps in the extraction workflow.

Dried blood spot analysis is a useful, but not yet perfect, technique.

With many potential benefits, it is easy to understand the drive to develop systems and methods acceptable to the regulatory authorities.