{"id":246851,"date":"2026-11-08T02:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/this-hand-cranked-device-can-tell-you-your-blood-type-and-red-cell-levels-in-a-minute"},"modified":"2026-11-08T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:13:52","slug":"this-hand-cranked-device-can-tell-you-your-blood-type-and-red-cell-levels-in-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/this-hand-cranked-device-can-tell-you-your-blood-type-and-red-cell-levels-in-a-minute","title":{"rendered":"This Hand-Cranked Device Can Tell You Your Blood Type And Red Cell Levels in a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/doctor-realizes-hes-having-a-heart-attack-while-treating-heart-attack-patient\">Medical emergencies<\/a> aren\u2019t always considerate enough to happen close to hospitals or clinics, and all the professional equipment and trained staff that go along with them.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers led by a team from the National Taiwan University have developed a hand-cranked device that can be operated by anyone, anywhere, without a power source \u2013 and which can reveal blood type and red blood cell levels in a sample within a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Those are two crucial pieces of information that medics and doctors often need to know quickly about patients when an emergency happens. All that\u2019s needed is a tiny drop of blood for analysis. Details of the device and its promising early tests have been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bios.2026.119215\"><em>Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical emergencies aren\u2019t always considerate enough to happen close to hospitals or clinics, and all the professional equipment and trained staff that go along with them. Now researchers led by a team from the National Taiwan University have developed a hand-cranked device that can be operated by anyone, anywhere, without a power source \u2013 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246851","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}