Acoustic sensors have emerged as a promising technology for monitoring the coagulation process in blood, offering rapid, sensitive and minimally invasive detection of the complex viscoelastic changes ...

If you've ever accidentally sliced yourself on broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed that the bleeding can be hard to stop. Scientists have long wondered how the cascade of events ...

Using a high-sensitivity blood test (SMAT) that measures initial thrombin generation (ITG)—the very first step of blood clot formation—the researchers analyzed blood samples from 771 patients with ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, in which the immune system attacks the gut, is a painful chronic condition that affects three million Americans. Rates of IBD are rising, and there’s currently no cure. IBD ...

The research was led by a team from Simon Fraser University (SFU)'s Aerospace Physiology Laboratory, which routinely ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of cancer. It is often diagnosed at a late stage, when the disease has already spread to other organs such as the liver. Because of ...