Portable lab with the capacity to screen millions of bacteria in water samples could boost water safety. A suitcase-size portable testing laboratory could cut back the time and money spent on ...

What if there were a way to make proteins, enzymes and reagents right in the lab, in small amounts, on demand? Microscopic images of E.coli bacteria. Image courtesy of the Center for Disease Control.

Engineers have developed a laboratory filtration system that uses a simple water purification technique and can eliminate 100 percent of the microbes in New Orleans water samples left from Hurricane ...

The U.S. military asks them to create water filtration technology designed for troops. Global health nonprofits seek technologies from them to help filter safe drinking water in developing countries.

An enlarged image of the different bioparticles found in a specimen including the micro-beads to better isolate bacteria. {RIT} Ke Du, PhD, and Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, PhD, both faculty-researchers in ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have generated strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that consume just CO 2 as their nutrient source, instead of organic compounds. They ...