{"id":156348,"date":"2023-01-26T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/single-drop-of-blood-can-be-used-to-measure-thousands-of-molecules"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:31:35","slug":"single-drop-of-blood-can-be-used-to-measure-thousands-of-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/single-drop-of-blood-can-be-used-to-measure-thousands-of-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Single drop of blood can be used to measure thousands of molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-drop-of-blood-can-be-used-to-measure-thousands-of-molecules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford Medicine have shown they can measure thousands of molecules \u2014 some of which are signals of health \u2014 from a single drop of blood.<\/p>\n<p>The new approach combines a microsampling device \u2014 a tool used to self-administer a finger prick \u2014 with \u201cmulti-omics\u201d technologies, which simultaneously analyze a vast array of proteins, fats, by-products of metabolism and inflammatory markers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven more importantly, we\u2019ve shown you can collect the blood drop at home and mail it into the lab,\u201d said Michael Snyder, PhD, director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine and senior author on the research, which was published in <i>Nature Biomedical Engineering<\/i> on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Stanford Medicine have shown they can measure thousands of molecules \u2014 some of which are signals of health \u2014 from a single drop of blood. The new approach combines a microsampling device \u2014 a tool used to self-administer a finger prick \u2014 with \u201cmulti-omics\u201d technologies, which simultaneously analyze a vast array of proteins, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}