Credit: Becton, Dickinson and Company. The system consists of a capillary blood collection tube and a finger sleeve that is intended for use by a trained health care provider, without the need of a ...

Many diseases arise from abnormalities in our capillaries, tiny exquisitely branching blood vessel networks that play a critical role in tissue health. Researchers have learned a lot about the ...

Thanks to the increasing availability of point-of-care (POC) testing, the use of capillary blood (fingerstick) sampling worldwide is growing. Anemia affects around 25% of the global population. Its ...

The Capillary Cup is a zero-gravity cup designed by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit on the International Space Station. The product is an open drinking cup designed to be used in a microgravity ...