Bar coding is an automatic identification technology that allows data to be collected rapidly and accurately from all aspects of a company’s operations, including manufacturing, inspection, ...

In the wake of 2008 product scares involving melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted toys, and melamine-tainted milk products, all originating in China, consumers in the U.S. understandably became ...

Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during order transcription or administration of medication. To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify ...

The ability of microarrays to measure thousands of RNA transcripts at one time allows for the characterization of cells and tissues in greater depth than was previously possible, but has not yet led ...

A bird in the taxonomic hand may actually be two in the bush, according to the results of a genetic survey of all North American avians The common raven may not be so common anymore, according to the ...

LONDON – Where would we be without the lowly bar code? Standing in a long line at the checkout, most likely. Without bar codes, the cashier would be forced to manually key in product and price ...

Just 2 months ago, Bob Ward took a grueling, 27-hour flight from his hometown in Tasmania, to visit his good friend Paul Hebert in Guelph, Ontario. But rather than bringing his host a souvenir jar of ...

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than ...