Credit card-sized device tests for heart disease using less than a drop of blood
Endothelial progenitor cells can become Endothelial cells (pictured), which make up the lining of blood vessels
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A new credit-card sized device could provide a way to test people for heart disease using a pinprick of blood. Developed by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities in Boston the device can measure and collect a type of cells, called endothelial progenitor cells, using just 200 microliters of blood.
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