Colorado has become the first state to ban arrests based solely on a field drug test widely used by law enforcement across ...

We have described a simple, rapid and sensitive method for detecting DNA targets through hybridization to gold nanoparticle probes in a homogeneous assay format. The resulting nanoparticle complexes ...

A great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – spawning a 15-month legal nightmare, forcing her to refinance ...

The increased resistance of various bacteria toward available antibiotic drugs has initiated intensive research efforts into identifying new sources of antimicrobial substances. Short antibiotic ...

Colorado has become the first state in the nation to prohibit arrests based solely on colorimetric drug tests, also known as ...

The basic working principle of colorimetric sensing is colorimetry, which is a visible change in color that results from a chemical interaction between the sensing/detecting material and the target ...

"Generally, a colorimetric probe consist of a recognition moiety and a signal moiety," Xiaodong Chen, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological ...

With the worldwide coronavirus top of mind, scientists continue to develop new technology that can provide evidence-based guidance to quickly and accurately pinpoint potential environmental dangers.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the world needs technology that can quickly and accurately identify invisible dangers, including harmful substances or airborne environmental pollutants.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chameleon-like adaptive camouflage is based on structural colors that have evolved in Nature to help animals like cephalopods and certain birds and fish to modify their colors to ...