April 2015

I’m sure we can all agree that drawing blood is not the most enjoyable thing in the world. A new DARPA-sponsored company would like to replace needles and make blood testing way more convenient. Tasso Inc., an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has just received a $3 million federal grant to continue developing a pingpong […]

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A simple blood test could prove more accurate than mammograms by predicting breast cancer up to five years before it develops in the body, a major study has found. Scientists said the “truly amazing” method could predict the chance of developing the disease with accuracy levels of around 80%. This compares with mammograms, which are around 75% sensitive – and […]

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Before the avian influenza outbreak killed hundreds of thousands of turkeys in Minnesota, one farm suspected the virus and one university lab confirmed the news. Since that first case four weeks ago, technicians at the Veterinary Diagnostics Lab at the University of Minnesota work double shifts and weekends testing about 100 samples a day for […]

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