Mendelspod Podcast

A Point-of-Care CBC Test Based on a Few Drops of Blood—Is This the Real Thing? with Danny Levner, Sight Diagnostics

Informações:

Synopsis

Time is health. Take certain blood cancers, for instance. When a patient is seen in a doctor’s office, they are then sent to a central lab for testing, and the results can take a few days. With blood cancer patients, these few days can be vital. For years a holy grail in diagnostics has been to get diagnostic tests to the point-of-care based on just a few drops of the patient’s blood that could give immediate results.