A team led by La Trobe University has drawn inspiration from nature to develop a breakthrough sensor that can rapidly track ...

A company is looking at blood as a possible diagnosis tool for mental illness. Blood tests can check for infections and high cholesterol, but currently, they can’t test for mental illness or pain. A ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the cancers where, if found early, it has a 91% chance of survival for the patient. If you find ...

New blood-testing technology that promises to improve healthcare treatments for cancer patients, post-operative care and monitor the health of babies in the womb is being developed by Lancaster ...

A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early—sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at ...

Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or ...

Multicancer assays leverage cfDNA methylation patterns to detect malignancy and infer tumor origin, with reported tissue-of-origin prediction approaching 87% accuracy in real-world experience. The 142 ...

Researchers believe they have developed the first dedicated blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which has the potential to be a ...

GRAIL IS AN American biotech company with an ambitious goal: to develop a blood test for the early detection of over 50 types of cancer. It will not be easy. On February 19th the company announced ...

The once-heralded blood-testing startup Theranos is shutting down, according to a media report. Theranos was unable to sell itself and is now looking to pay unsecured creditors its remaining cash of ...

For most people, the biggest obstacle to routine blood testing isn’t fear of needles. It’s the process itself. Traditional lab work often requires booking appointments weeks in advance, rearranging ...