With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home. "Heart attacks require ...

Researchers have developed a handheld, sound-based diagnostic system able to deliver precise results in an hour with a mere finger-prick of blood. Patients who go to the doctor to provide a blood ...

Patients who go to the doctor to provide a blood sample are typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or days of waiting to get results back from a lab. University of Colorado Boulder ...

Title image: Cooper Thome, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, uses a new "acoustic pipette," which could someday be used to deliver swift test results at ...