Compact analyzers offer expanded CBC and real-time quality assurance

Device is the first to provide rapid, point-of-care measurement of the immune system's response, without any need to process the blood

New method will help inform development of a future assay that could potentially detect cancer in its earliest stages

Immune-system activity weakens before symptoms arise

The idea for the bovine application evolved from discussions between Los Alamos National Lab researchers and scientists at the New Mexico health laboratory

The new tools are the first, say the study authors, to identify melanoma DNA in the blood of patients whose cancer is spreading and who lack defects in either the BRAF or NRAS gene

"This is the first study to test next generation sequencing and machine learning technologies together to estimate age from blood and saliva samples"

Big data techniques find biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

The inconsistency means doctors are left to make important patient-care decisions based on potentially inaccurate information, and patients with kidney disease may be paying for unnecessary nutritional supplements because of it

According to Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, of the UNC School of Medicine, the WHO should amend its centralization policy to help doctors save lives in Sub-Saharan Africa