The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun 2026 with a clear signal to the direct‑to‑consumer testing industry: self‑collection devices ...

Researchers found that blood samples collected at home and mailed in can reliably track early Alzheimer’s-related brain ...

Blood-filled test tubes hidden under clothing and in false-bottom suitcases led Chinese authorities to smuggling rings that shipped more than 100,000 blood samples from pregnant women for fetal sex ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Monitoring thousands of environmental chemicals in microliter blood volumes is now ...

Quantabio has launched the sparQ™ Lysis Kit, designed to isolate high-quality, double-stranded genomic DNA from dried blood spot (DBS) samples. The kit enables DNA recovery from limited sample inputs ...

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis ...

Introduction: We previously reported the identification of circulating fatty objects (CFOs), abnormal entities found in peripheral blood samples from cancer patients. CFOs are large spherical objects ...

Nobody likes having blood samples taken, which is why it's always good to hear about possible alternatives. One of the latest takes the form of a self-powered skin patch that painlessly gathers ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- There are new details about documents that ABC 11 obtained last month in the killing of 19-year-old University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth. In that ...

Women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening are most likely to participate in screening when a self-sampling kit is offered by a healthcare professional as part of routine GP appointments, ...