Choosing a blood collection tube that maintains sample integrity is crucial for researchers examining the plasma proteome.

By preserving and inhibiting the blood's programmed cell death (apoptosis), the cf-DNA/cf-RNA Preservative Tubes stop intracellular DNA/RNA from escaping into plasma. Samples of whole blood can be ...

The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago.

Several health systems across the U.S. — including Northwestern Medicine — are gearing up to try a new way of drawing blood: using a robot.

Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.

A Dutch firm's AI-powered machines that draw blood with more accuracy than humans without the patient seeing the needle to be ...

Samples collected from a crew member are inserted into a cryogenic storage unit for preservation and later analysis.

Samples collected from a crew ... After completing a blood draw (we are our own phlebotomists up here), we spun the tubes in a centrifuge and then put them in the MELFI (Minus Eighty Degree ...

The procedure we have adopted involves placing the radioactive sample and scintillation fluid in an ordinary 5 cm × 1.2 cm diameter specimen tube that ... the cells of the blood, whilst in ...

The highly accurate test detects RNA from live fungi in blood samples and ... on a bronchoscopy in which a tube is inserted into the patient's airways to collect samples, an expensive and invasive ...