Researchers at Houston Methodist, along with collaborators at two major Singapore institutions, have developed a lab in a needle device that could provide instant results to routine lab tests, ...

Researchers at Houston Methodist have helped to develop a lab-in-a-needle device that can take a blood or tissue sample from a patient and provide a lab test result on the spot. The prototype was ...

What if it were possible to squeeze the diagnostic ability of a lab into a single needle? Scientists have come up with a self-contained lab in a needle-like device which is claimed capable of ...

Patients battling serious diseases often endure long waits for results of lab tests to confirm their diagnosis or determine how well their treatment is working. Many must make multiple trips to the ...

• Lab_OldNeedle and Lab_NewNeedle are videos taken at the Oxford Fluid Dynamics Laboratory by collaborator and co-author Prof. Alfonso Castrejon-Pita, who should be credited. They show how the old ...

Two series of lab tests run on blood drawn once in the morning is surely different from two series of lab tests from two separate pokes. What really matters most to our patients – and thus to the ...

A lab technician who contracted hepatitis C on the job has thrown his support behind agovernment plan tointroduce safer needles at Nova Scotia hospitals. Matthew Duboissaysthe disease has left him too ...

A lab in a needle device has been created by researchers that could provide instant results to routine lab tests, accelerating treatment and diagnosis by days. Researchers at Houston Methodist, along ...