Cancer tumors shed DNA, proteins, other molecules, and cells into the bloodstream long before they can be spotted with techniques like magnetic resonance imaging. A new liquid biopsy technique could ...

Your blood is a delicate mixture. Researchers and clinicians often use blood to learn what’s going on inside our bodies, in part because siphoning off a tube of blood is easier and less painful than ...

A robot arm could soon be coming to your doctor’s office to take your blood and analyze it for you. From scientists at Rutgers University, this technology could change the way doctors’ offices and ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have published a new blood test designed to detect multiple cancers ...

Tasso cofounders Erwin Berthier and Ben Casavant at the company's Seattle factory. What if you could draw blood at home rather than having it done at the doctor’s office? That’s the premise of Tasso, ...

Vein size is not something that a person typically thinks about until they have blood drawn for lab work or for a blood donation and — ouch — it hurts. Instead of just pain from the needle poke, pain ...