By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world. The field of microfluidics deals with the ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Martine Rothblatt founded Sirius Satellite Radio from a desire to link people together. She founded United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR), which has a research and development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,  from a desperation to save her daughter's life. With no background in medicine, ...

Researchers have made progress in recent years in identifying and understanding the mechanisms of decay and inefficiency in the aging immune system. Here, 50connect.co.uk looks at other threads in this work: ''the most abundant form of white blood cells, whose job it is to defend against invading microbes, are only half as effective in people aged ...