(Phys.org) —"Imagine turning on your home lab kit, pricking your finger, and blotting the blood on an array of fiber probes. In just a few minutes, the machine would automatically e-mail the results ...

Currently, the only accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is through postmortem analyses after a patient dies, but investigators have now developed a highly sensitive method for quantifying levels ...

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Alexander Gumennik, director of Indiana University’s Fibers and Additive Manufacturing Enabled Systems Laboratory, is working with Cook Medical to embed “smart fibers,” like the ones shown here, in ...

Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, ...