Lancing a finger elicits minimal pain in humans and is applied routinely to obtain small volumes of blood for clinical diagnostics. A modified lancet bleeding method and several blood sampling ...

As COVID-19 seems to be making a comeback in many areas of the world, including Japan, a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 shows the relevance of microsamples of ...

In some embodiments, the method comprises providing a first low volume, capillary blood sample (or any low volume blood sample and/or any blood sample not obtained from a vein or by venipuncture) ...