When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

Puerto Rico’s 2024 dengue outbreak topped 6,000 cases. A 14-year-old student analyzed 440 blood samples, revealing age-based ...

Blood tests are helpful for monitoring your overall health. But research suggests they can also give us clues about the ...

Novel innovations for stabilizing the plasma proteome in whole blood samples provide researchers with more confidence in their protein analysis. To reduce the preanalytical variability, scientists can ...

It’s one of the most exciting areas of cancer research, but identifying the tumors through blood tests remains difficult, particularly for early-stage detection. Researchers at the University of ...

New Jersey police used a baby's mandatory blood sample to pursue a decades-old criminal case. Public defenders and a newspaper have since teamed up to sue over privacy concerns. They are seeking to ...

There’s been talk about liquid biopsies and the promise of using blood samples to test for a wide variety of cancers at once.