Medical devices are getting smaller, less invasive, and more advanced. From a product development and manufacturing perspective, the desire to go ever smaller creates some big — but not unsurmountable ...

Contemplating the growing examples of miniaturization throughout the world of product design and production brings to mind the adage, “Form follows function.” In a growing number of cases, shrinking ...

Compactness is a well-known trend that has been present for many years in consumer goods and now it has also reached the world of laboratory equipment. We’re all familiar with the pictures of people ...

Choosing assays for pharmaceutical screening is often a compromise between using the ideal target biologies and the harsh realities of reagent availability and cost. This is especially acute during ...

It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. —Samuel Johnson—1763 TODAY, nearly 200 years later, U.S. industry has coined ...

Miniaturization from conventional to small size results in several advantages, such as reduced sample consumption and shortened transport times of mass and heat. A key feature in microfluidic systems ...

insights from industryHuw ReesField Application ScientistSPT LabtechIn this interview, Huw Rees, a Field Application Scientist at SPT Labtech, discusses the benefits of miniaturization in ...