2023 Measuring thousands of protein, fat and metabolic molecules from a single drop of blood.

Jan 20, 2023 - Highlighted in USA Today: 
We can now measure thousands of protein, fat and metabolic molecules from a single drop of blood.

Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering:
Multi-omics microsampling for the profiling of lifestyle-associated changes in health:

Current healthcare practices are reactive and use limited physiological and clinical information, often collected months or years apart. Moreover, the discovery and profiling of blood biomarkers in clinical and research settings are constrained by geographical barriers, the cost and inconvenience of in-clinic venepuncture, low sampling frequency and the low depth of molecular measurements.


Current healthcare practices are reactive and use limited physiological and clinical information, often collected months or years apart. Moreover, the discovery and profiling of blood biomarkers in clinical and research settings are constrained by geographical barriers, the cost and inconvenience of in-clinic venepuncture, low sampling frequency and the low depth of molecular measurements.

Here we describe a strategy for the frequent capture and analysis of thousands of metabolites, lipids, cytokines and proteins in 10 μl of blood alongside physiological information from wearable sensors.

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