urine-drug-test

The urine drug test provides a way for the administration of something called an immunochromatographic urinary assay. The test, or assay, with that long name has, until fairly recently, always been done within the confines of the laboratory. Now, however, science has made it possible to do the same test in the privacy of a drug-user’s home. Special proteins called antibodies are made to adhere to a section of each test strip. Those proteins have the ability to bind to selected drugs. By joining an antibody to a chromatographic chemical agent, the strip maker has related the show of color and the presence of a drug. The strip maker has thus created a urine drug test that can provide results outside of the laboratory setting.

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