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Blood clotting analysis at home

Immediate and accurate tests to diagnose and monitor bleeding and blood clotting disorders could soon be available at every GP's surgery.

A spin-out company of the Science and Technology Facilities Council - Microvisk Technologies - is developing patented technology that they say will provide rapid, point-of-care and even home testing for blood clotting analysis.

John Curtis, chief executive at the company said: "Medical diagnostics is rapidly moving towards more effective and immediate testing for patients and away from the traditional, lengthy processes of sampling at a doctor's surgery and getting the results back from a lab weeks later."

Aimed at patients taking anti-clotting drugs, the sensor is based on a microscopic cantilever device which bends when heated. The degree and speed which the cantilever bends is indicative of the thickness of the blood surrounding the sensor.

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