Sentences with phrase «detect small amounts of blood»

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But detecting very small amounts of it in blood and other biological fluids can be difficult for health researchers, especially in the limited amounts available in laboratory experiments.

Researchers have devised a new CRISPR - based tool that will detect very small amounts of virus and bacteria in blood and urine samples for diagnostic tests.

Such tests are often performed by injecting a small amount of radioactive material into the blood and tracking its path with cameras that detect radioactive decay.

Earlier research had indicated that the test could detect very small amounts of CTCs — as low as one CTC per billion blood cells — with that size blood sample.

Often the amount of blood in the urine is so small it can only be detected by testing with a specially treated paper, or by looking at the urine sediment under the microscope.