Sentences with phrase «than a blood sample»

gives your doctor information about the health of your baby using nothing more than a blood sample from the mother.

Analyzing proteins in mucous is a less invasive approach and requires less processing than blood samples.

Recently, we have converted to using cheek brush samples rather than blood samples to save the dog owner the expense of having blood drawn by their veterinarian.

Not exact matches

«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.

Now for some more caveats: The sample, while large, was overwhelmingly made up of white people, and the measure of vitamin intake was based on surveys rather than blood draws (which could potentially lead to some misleading results).

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

At dinner, when the reporter asked Smith if athletes» blood should be tested for banned substances, because that would provide much more information about drug use than urine testing, she said, «I faint every time I have to give a blood sample.»

When you are 38 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound shows that your baby is fully developede In fact if your baby is born any time after this, he / she is considered to be full term and there are no problemsm If everything is fine in your 20 - week ultrasound, you may not need a 38 weeks pregnancy ultrasoundn Your doctor will keep track of the growth of the baby and will also ensure that you are healthy by testing your blood samples and urine and measuring your blood sugara Sometimes when you are 38 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound will be ordered by your doctor if he / she feels that the baby is smaller or bigger than expectede

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Since older people have greater potential for improving their fitness than younger people, a follow - up study conducted by a research group headed by doctor and molecular biologist Helmuth Haslacher from MedUni Vienna, in collaboration with Robert Winker's team from the Health and Prevention Center of the Healthcare Institution for City of Vienna employees, took blood samples from 47 marathon runners before an ergometer test, in order to carry out laboratory tests to determine levels of analytes, including inflammatory markers, muscle and liver parameters.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Now an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, Bry, 42, has melded her computer knowledge with her clinical and research education to fill a critical need: She has developed an informatics solution to get blood and other biological samples to researchers at a lower cost, and in a shorter time frame, than ever before.

Collecting blood samples from 137 vultures and 27 ravens, they found that lead levels in ravens were almost six times higher during hunting season, when they were exposed to animal remains tainted with lead ammunition, than the rest of the year.

The discovery came from analysing how gene activity changes through the year using blood samples from more than 16,000 people.

Gill, with concussion physician Jeffrey Bazarian of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York, and colleagues took preseason blood samples from more than 600 male and female University of Rochester athletes who participate in contact sports: football, basketball, hockey, and lacrosse.

So far Kajander and his colleagues have found the nanobacteria in cattle blood, in 80 % of samples of commercial cow serum in which mammalian cells are grown in the lab, and in the blood of nearly 6 % of more than 1000 Finnish adults tested.

Scientists estimate that, worldwide, there are nearly 800,000 cord blood samples in public banks, and more than 5 million stored in private banks.

With samples taken from 242 people, 24 of whom had a cancer diagnosis, the worms made the correct diagnosis 96 per cent of the time, a success rate that the researchers say is better than any blood test.

Researchers at the University of Washington developed a device smaller than a toaster that can detect the level of hemoglobin in whole blood samples using optical absorbance.

He notes, however, that the freezing and processing required to study the blood samples often causes degradation that makes RNA easier to find than the virus.

«The ability to detect infection using urine rather than blood avoids needle stick and blood sample collection, greatly reduces the cost and necessary clinical infrastructure for screening and diagnosis, helping to promote widespread adoption of the test on a global scale,» Hu said.

After analyzing 3,550 clinical blood samples, the test demonstrated more than a 99.9 % accuracy rate, and the only inconsistencies occurred in trials with highly uncommon blood types.

Unlike conventional microplate or gel - column blood - grouping tests, which are technically demanding and slow to return results, the easy - to - interpret test classified samples into the common ABO and Rh blood groups in less than 30 seconds after only two simple steps.

A study that used stored blood samples from U.S. Air Force personnel who conducted aerial herbicide spray missions of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war found a more than 2-fold increased risk of the precursor to multiple myeloma known as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), according to an article published online by JAMA Oncology.

Rather than screening an athlete's blood or urine samples for traces of banned substances right before or after a competition, testers using the ABP scheme compare samples with an athlete's baseline profile, as determined by multiple tests over time.

A study based on blood samples from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a direct correlation between smoking and mortality.

The International Cycling Union (UCI), suffering from a severe credibility problem, adopted the ABP in 2008, collecting about 10 blood samples each from more than 800 riders over the course of the year.

In a crucial test of their sensor, the researchers used higher levels of fungal pheromones than those normally found in patient blood or urine samples.

Since 2000, blood doping tests have been able to detect whenever blood from more than one person is present in a cyclist's sample (called a homologous blood transfusion).

Palumbi and Roman base their figures on analysis of mitochondrial DNA in blood samples taken from more than 312 humpbacks, 370 fin whales, and 87 minke whales, mostly in the North Atlantic.

Equipped with nothing more than genomes and the rate of mutation — no blood samples or medical histories required — Pybus has uncovered the history of HIV, various flu viruses and other pathogens.

Similar to high - tech centrifuges, the paperfuge was able to separate plasma from blood samples in less than 1.5 minutes, the team reports today in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Aside from the pain and inconvenience, such occasional blood sampling is less than ideal for maintaining healthy glucose levels.

The team also collected blood samples, which confirmed that more than 25 percent of the monkeys had been infected with human astroviruses.

The team focused on Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, where strep was common, collecting some 45,000 blood samples from more than 9,000 recruits between 1948 and 1954.

Mr. Saffa had more than 20 years of experience collecting blood samples from Lassa fever patients.

One advantage of lncRNAs is that the molecules can be detected in urine samples, which are more easily available than blood tests.

Their 38 - page report (including appendices) contains sections on environmental samples such as soil and swipes from rockets; interviews with more than 50 survivors and with medical staff members; and blood, urine, and hair samples from survivors.

The study, which also involved researchers from universities in Asia, Europe and Canada, examined blood samples of more than 700 macaques.

This is an important step, Singh said, since toxins may behave differently in live animals and humans than in laboratory blood samples.

Blood samples showed that many in this group exhibit C - peptide molecules (a marker of insulin production), blood glucose levels that rise less after a meal than would be expected in the absence of insulin, and signs of autoimmune atBlood samples showed that many in this group exhibit C - peptide molecules (a marker of insulin production), blood glucose levels that rise less after a meal than would be expected in the absence of insulin, and signs of autoimmune atblood glucose levels that rise less after a meal than would be expected in the absence of insulin, and signs of autoimmune attack.

The chip would allow the filtering of cancer cells from a blood sample, which would be an easier way to harvest cancer cells, rather than the current method of taking them from tumor sites in the body.

They identified more than 559 lipids that were significantly different (q < 0.05) between control and patient samples, of which 55 were structurally identified by matching to entries in a blood plasma lipid AMT tag database.

The result is a three - dimensional map of the elements» placement on a sample smaller than a single blood cell.

A drop of blood on filter paper, allowed to dry and kept until diagnosis — a considerably easier option than the present - day, resource - consuming method using frozen blood samples in plastic tubes.

Since 1997, he has directed the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in the Nurses» Health Study and other large cohorts comprising more than 400,000 men and women who have provided detailed information on their dietary habits and lifestyle in addition to blood or cheek cell samples for genetic and other laboratory analyses.

In a series of in vitro studies using blood samples from 37 participants, we found that shedding of sIL - 6R from neutrophils was greater in carriers of the Asp358Ala minor allele than in non-carriers.

November 23, 2015 New test may improve diagnosis and treatment of pancreatobiliary and other gastrointestinal cancers By collecting samples from the portal vein — which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver — physicians can learn far more about a patient's pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm.

Experiments comparing the HB - Chip to the CTC - chip found the new device captured more than 90 percent of cancer cells introduced into blood samples - a 25 percent improvement over the CTC - chip.

Researchers took blood samples from 17,298 women who were less than 20 weeks pregnant, and checked for markers of thyroid disease.