Variation is the enemy of highly reliable healthcare. This was the crux of one of my favorite articles of the past couple years, Dr. Atul Gawande’s “Big Med,” which appeared in The New Yorker. It was ...

Cell-free expression (CFE) systems are a staple of biomanufacturing, but their variability–even when identical protocols are followed–can affect qualitative assessments of genetic components. The ...

Differences in how users gate populations within experiments are major sources of variability in flow cytometry data analysis. Incorporating automated image analysis can substantially reduce user bias ...

Process variability is becoming more problematic as transistor density increases, both in planar chips and in heterogeneous advanced packages. On the basis of sheer numbers, there are many more things ...