Two former employees of a lab that certified many Australian sunscreens have told the ABC about what they allege is questionable data and testing practices. Several sunscreen brands have stopped using ...

A consumer group Choice review shows Princeton Consumer Research carried out tests for certification for at least eight sunscreens that fell short of their advertised SPF50 claims. Several industry ...

The transmission of viruses through biological materials is of great concern to many researchers and managers of lab animal facilities. There is ample documentation 1 for the confounding effects of ...

This paper describes the development of a microfluidic methodology, using RNA extraction and reverse transcription PCR, for investigating expression levels of cytochrome P450 genes. Cytochrome P450 ...

If a laboratory technique is around long enough, it can start to seem like a comfortable piece of furniture. That’s the case for PCR, a technique so venerable that even its descendants, digital PCR ...

PCR is a well-established and widely used technique that enables scientists to take a small sample of DNA and amplify it so it can be sequenced and studied in detail. PCR has many applications, from ...