Getting your blood drawn can be uncomfortable. Yet for decades, it’s been the go-to method for checking what’s happening inside your body. Researchers at North Carolina State University and the ...

Barely visible needles, or “microneedles,” are poised to usher in an era of pain-free injections and blood testing. Whether attached to a syringe or a patch, microneedles prevent pain by avoiding ...

Getting a skin biopsy to check your immune system feels medieval-scalpels, stitches, and permanent scars just to see what’s happening in your tissue. But researchers from The Jackson Laboratory and ...

RAVE to April at the Northgate Polyclinic lab, who provided an absolutely painless blood draw for me today. I’m still marveling at it. After a series of painful ones elsewhere, this one was like cool ...