A team led by La Trobe University has drawn inspiration from nature to develop a breakthrough sensor that can rapidly track ...

A company is looking at blood as a possible diagnosis tool for mental illness. Blood tests can check for infections and high cholesterol, but currently, they can’t test for mental illness or pain. A ...

A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early—sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at ...

For most people, the biggest obstacle to routine blood testing isn’t fear of needles. It’s the process itself. Traditional lab work often requires booking appointments weeks in advance, rearranging ...

An Orange County sports business says it has made an advancement in detecting one of the most significant injuries suffered by athletes: concussions. Irvine-based MotoAmerica is implementing new ...

The once-heralded blood-testing startup Theranos is shutting down, according to a media report. Theranos was unable to sell itself and is now looking to pay unsecured creditors its remaining cash of ...

Multicancer assays leverage cfDNA methylation patterns to detect malignancy and infer tumor origin, with reported tissue-of-origin prediction approaching 87% accuracy in real-world experience. The 142 ...

Researchers believe they have developed the first dedicated blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which has the potential to be a ...

Beyond the myriad complications that come with diabetes, patients have to additionally put up with regular blood sugar testing – which involves either multiple pin pricks a day to draw blood or ...