What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them

Your blood contains a wealth of information about the state of your health. Analyzing the levels of each component is an important part of diagnosis.

Brad Reisfeld, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University • conversation
Feb. 5, 2024 • ~8 min

Nanomedicines for various diseases are in development – but research facilities produce vastly inconsistent results on how the body will react to them

The proteins that cover nanoparticles are essential to understanding how they work in the body. Across 17 proteomics facilities in the US, less than 2% of the identified proteins were identical.

Morteza Mahmoudi, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Michigan State University • conversation
Jan. 5, 2023 • ~5 min

How Theranos' faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation

The FDA has chosen not to regulate lab-developed tests like the ones at the center of the Theranos trial.

Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University • conversation
Oct. 5, 2021 • ~9 min

Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short

Ideally everyone could get tested frequently for the coronavirus. No state is close to achieving this, but some are doing better than others. What are the challenges in meeting demand for testing?

Zoe McLaren, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
July 24, 2020 • ~9 min

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