March 15, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Using smaller blood tubes decreases the amount of blood collected, does not appear to affect laboratory test results, and reduces the amount of blood drawn overall, ...

After a lengthy experiment with tantalizing implications for origin-of-life studies, a research group in Japan has reported creating a test tube world of molecules that spontaneously evolved both ...

If you work in a lab, you’ve probably used lab glass made from quartz. But you probably haven’t realized that the reason those test tubes are so durable is exactly what makes them so hard to mold.