Much of the blood drawn for laboratory analysis is wasted. In a clinical setting where your blood is being taken multiple times a day, wouldn't it be better for the laboratory to use a smaller amount ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD An ESR test can help detect inflammation in your body by measuring how quickly red ...

A laboratory technician places human blood samples on an automated testing line. This laboratory, which operates a fully automated system complete with advanced robotics, can test more than 50,000 ...

Extra blood tubes were used for additional testing at a rate of 7%, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Robert M. Humble, BS, MS, from the University of Iowa, and colleagues ...

It’s likely that at some point in your life, you’ll have blood drawn for either a medical test or for donating blood. The process for either procedure is similar and usually much less painful than ...

The discovery that blood carries short fragments of DNA, known as cell-free DNA (cfDNA), has opened a new window into biological processes and, in combination with advances in sequencing, is ...