{"id":89696,"date":"2019-04-18T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dont-like-blood-tests-new-microscope-uses-rainbow-of-light-to-image-the-flow-of-individual-blood-cells"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:03:00","slug":"dont-like-blood-tests-new-microscope-uses-rainbow-of-light-to-image-the-flow-of-individual-blood-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dont-like-blood-tests-new-microscope-uses-rainbow-of-light-to-image-the-flow-of-individual-blood-cells","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t like blood tests? New microscope uses rainbow of light to image the flow of individual blood cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-like-blood-tests-new-microscope-uses-rainbow-of-light-to-image-the-flow-of-individual-blood-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the skin. This optical instrument, no bigger than a breadbox, is able to provide high-resolution images of blood coursing through our veins without the need for harsh and short-lived fluorescent dyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/05\/120521115654.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the skin. This optical [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89696","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=89696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}