They also plan to adapt the technology so that it can generate more
precise white blood cell counts, which would make it useful for monitoring bone marrow transplant recipients or people with certain infectious diseases, Castro - Gonzalez says.
The technology does not provide a
precise count of
white blood cells, but reveals whether patients are above or below the threshold considered dangerous — defined as 500 neutrophils (the most common type of
white blood cell) per microliter of
blood.