Many assays have integrated, built-in, or internal controls to demonstrate their operability at specific procedural steps. What role do these built-in controls play in quality control to assure ...

Clinical trials give patients hope — especially when all other available treatments have been exhausted. That hope compels patients to commit a substantial amount of time and effort for the chance to ...

Control arms in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have a key role in isolating the effects of the medical product from those caused by other factors. However, in some cases — such as phase II trials ...

Engineered oncolytic bacteria have emerged as a promising therapeutic platform for precision cancer treatment, offering tumor ...

In 1954, Psychologist Julian B. Rotter proposed the concept of locus of control made up of two ends of a continuum. On one end of the continuum is the internal locus of control with the external locus ...

We all get tempted away from the task at hand. Who resists this temptation? Does external control help us resist temptation? How well we resist temptation and the effects of external control depend on ...

As Mother Teresa famously said, "To work without love is slavery." She was speaking about those who work without satisfaction and pleasure. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report, ...

Who controls your happiness? Who is responsible for your income? Your attitude? Each of us has a belief about how much control we have over the things we encounter in life. We each view life either as ...