Detecting Heart Disease with One Drop of Blood
June 16, 2009 | Terry Sharrer
Shashi K. Murthy, in the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University (Boston) has developed a device, about the size of a credit card, that uses antibodies to capture endothelial progenitor cells from a single drop of blood (200 microliters), indicating heart disease in adults and children. A report about this appeared in the current issue of The FASEB Journal ( Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology). MORE