Data + Design Project

No veins needed: Chip analyzes blood from pinprick

Wednesday 08.31.2011 , Posted by

The days of the blood sample routine—arm out, make a fist, find a vein, and tap in—may soon be over, thanks to a new analysis method that requires only a pinprick of blood. A relatively new alternative to drawing blood from veins for analysis uses very small blood samples stored as dried blood spots (DBSs). [Read more...]