POSTS TAGGED AS Blood

Laser Imaging of Circulating Blood

Using two lasers that excite specific molecules in the skin, a Harvard team has been able to image blood [MORE]

Forensic Blood Test for Age Determination

So far, there is no DNA marker for age, but Dutch researchers have found a way to estimate age [MORE]

Autologous Platelet Concentrator

Heart, joint, and dental surgeries often involved substantial blood loss, which calls for transfusion.  To lessen the need for [MORE]

Automated Blood Counter

Combining digital image processing and a microscope, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany have developed [MORE]

Blood Chemistry Analyzer in the Palm of Your Hand

Radisens Diagnostics (Cork, Ireland) appears ready to begin manufacturing and marketing a hand-held blood analyzer, relying on photonic detection [MORE]

New High Speed Automated Blood Analyzer

Bio-Rad’s (Hercules, CA) new blood screening instrument “offers full automation, integrated QC and validation, intuitive software, and walk-away convenience [MORE]

Blood as a Source of iPSCs

Most of the R&D work on induced pluripotent stem cells has been done with skin tissue, but recently, investigators at [MORE]

Newborn Screening

PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA and Fremont, CA) has introduced an automated platform that quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes neonate blood samples [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Innovations for 2010

At Number 1: A new non-surgical, removable hearing and communication device designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth to [MORE]

Insight on Alzheimer’s

Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have found that endothelin converting enzyme-2 plays a role, along with Aβ peptide [MORE]

Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy

The idea that a patient’s own blood might be used to grow new soft tissue and repair bone is considerably [MORE]

FDA Approved Five More i-STAT Tests

Abbott’s i-STAT handheld blood analyzer has just received an FDA waiver for five more tests using its 18 cartridges, which [MORE]

Cheap and Quick Blood Diagnostics

Serum protein tests today can cost $500 per marker, require 10 to 15 milliters of blood, and at least [MORE]

Another Reason to Go Fishing

University of Utah Medical School researchers made a surprising discovery about the blood chemistry of brown trout in cold western [MORE]