Brad Reisfeld is a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, and public health at Colorado State University. Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health.

A groundbreaking study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals a new method for predicting a person’s 30-year risk of heart disease through a routine blood test. Traditionally, doctors have ...

Just one drop of blood could reveal if you have pancreatic cancer. A new test called PAC-MANN can pick up signs of the disease in people’s blood, even at an early stage, researchers report February 12 ...

DURHAM, N.C. – A blood test successfully predicted knee osteoarthritis at least eight years before tell-tale signs of the disease appeared on x-rays, Duke Health researchers report. In a study ...

A research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has highlighted recent advances in ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer in adults in the United States. Early detection could prevent more than 90% of colorectal cancer–related deaths, yet more than one third of the ...

Early tests suggest that a new tool that requires only a single drop of blood could detect three of the deadliest forms of cancer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...