Diagnosis of asthma a drop of blood

    




The team of the University of Wisconsin have developed a rapid and cheap diagnostic tool to identify asthma blood.

Using a minimal amount of blood University specialists can identify even the most mild cases of this disease. The researchers used the function of neutrophils in their experiment, to determine the exact diagnosis of asthma. "This is one of the first studies that shows that the process definition can be an easy, practical and cheap," said David Beebe, Professor.

Asthma one of the diseases, which are difficult to accurately diagnose. Now diagnosis of the disease consists of a number of clinical trials. Bib with colleagues using the function of neutrophils and microfluidic technology, greatly simplifying and cheapen this process by putting the diagnosis of one drop of blood.



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