Scientists breathe easy with new dolphin DNA testing

Collecting DNA from dolphins is now easier thanks to scientists at The University of Queensland, Georgetown University, and the Baltimore Aquarium

Police to draw blood from drivers who refuse breath test in DWI crackdown Labor Day weekend

EMT or nurse actually will draw blood at jail once court order is obtained

Animal rights groups face off with scientists over fate of chimps

Almost 200 have had a long break from testing that dates to NASA's early days, but that could end. Ever since the first of their number arrived in New Mexico half a century ago as test subjects in the fledgling U.S. space program, nearly 200 government-owned chimpanzees were routinely injected with viruses and used to test everything from experimental vaccines to insecticides.

Abbott gets US FDA nod for Abbott RealTime HBV assay, automated molecular test for assessing hep B treatment

Abbott has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Abbott RealTime HBV assay for measuring viral load or the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a patient's blood.

FDA, NIH Team IDs Murine Leukemia Virus Genes in Blood of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients

A group led by researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health has used nested PCR assays to detect gene sequences from a virus related to murine leukemia virus in patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a disorder that has no known cause or cure, according to a recently published paper.