A project at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology has developed a metasurface-enabled biosensor that could help move medical testing from hospitals to patients' homes. Described in ACS Sensors ...

The U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H, is touting a new program to support the development of cheap, wearable biosensors capable of monitoring multiple ...

Researchers overcome key challenges in the mass production of enzymatic biofuel cells, paving the way for self-powered wearable sensor. (Nanowerk News) Wearable sensors are rapidly advancing, becoming ...

Early in life, we are taught that beauty and pain are synonymous. I remember, as a little girl, watching my big sister in the salon chair, tears streaming down her face as she gripped the chair ...

Rapid and reliable virus detection is one of the most critical tools for controlling outbreaks, from seasonal influenza to global pandemics like COVID-19. A new review published in Biocontaminant ...

A portable biosensor developed at La Trobe University may allow rapid, on-site detection of toxic "forever chemicals" in water, removing the need for samples to be sent to specialist laboratories. The ...

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The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black ...

A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the EPA locked in a formaldehyde risk evaluation built on the Agency’s long-controversial IRIS assessment—only for the next EPA to do something genuinely ...

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict. Reading time 3 minutes The Trump administration ...

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