Finger-prick dried blood sampling can accurately measure key Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, including p-tau217, GFAP, and ...

Blood biomarkers like p-tau217 are emerging as a way to detect Alzheimer's disease. The first FDA-approved blood-based ...

In a significant development for brain health, scientists have demonstrated for the first time how hemorrhages can occur due to a faulty interaction between aged red blood cells and narrow capillaries ...

EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, has published an Educational Guide which provides a quick overview of capillary blood sampling best practice. It aims to help healthcare ...

Background: Studies measuring human growth hormone (hGH) in blood during exercise have mainly used venous sampling. The invasive nature of this procedure makes evaluation of hGH impossible in various ...

Another common reason for nosebleeds is “digital manipulation, which is a nice way of saying nose picking or scratching your ...

You have more than 40 billion hair-thin capillaries in your body and for the most part their inner workings remain a mystery despite their importance in distributing oxygen to your cells. We may soon ...

This study demonstrates that fast raster-scan optoacoustic mesoscopy (fRSOM) enables non-invasive, detailed visualization of ...

Engineered human capillaries are providing an astounding view of how red blood cells transit ultra-small blood vessels. This new platform was used in a recent study to learn how severe malaria ...

3D microvessels have been created to observe how red blood cells transit ultra-small blood vessels. They squeeze single-file through microvessels to bring oxygen and nutrients. Red cells burdened with ...