Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers measured from finger-prick dried blood samples closely match standard plasma tests and predict CSF pathology with good accuracy, a large-scale study shows.

There are indications that a simple finger-prick blood test could, in the future, detect Alzheimer's disease long before the ...

A study conducted in Spain and other European countries refines a method to simplify the early diagnosis of the leading cause of dementia ...

Dried blood spot technology may make biomarker testing more accessible ...

People with diabetes are urged to always wash their hands before testing their blood sugar. But if soap and water are nowhere to be found, using the "second drop" of blood may be OK, a new study ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have shown they can measure thousands of molecules — some of which are signals of health — from a single drop of blood. The new approach combines a microsampling ...

When it comes to needles and drawing blood, most patients agree that bigger is not better. But in the first study of its kind, Rice University bioengineers have found results from a single drop of ...