Nature

Techniques for collecting blood from the domestic chicken

As the use of chickens in biomedical research is increasing, demand is growing for technical skills involving poultry, particularly techniques such as venipuncture. Phlebotomy (blood collection) is an ...
News Medical

The most effective blood separation methods

Blood separation is the dividing of whole blood into its various components. Whole blood is often isolated for therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, including research. For this to be achieved, ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Prentiss, R. L., Bollinger, B. L., Lamont, K. A. et al. 2024. Comparison of novel and traditional bleeding techniques in neonatal and juvenile mice. JAALAS 63(3), 333–342.

Blood collection is frequently used for neonatal and juvenile mice in toxicology, developmental, and immunology studies and is often a terminal procedure. However, the use of nonterminal blood ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Ahrens Kress, A. P., Zhang, Y., Kaiser-Vry, A. R. et al. 2022. A Comparison of blood collection techniques in mice and their effects on welfare. JAALAS 61(3), 287-295.

Multiple methods are used to collect blood from mice; these methods have different effects on animal welfare. This study compared blood collection from facial, chin, and saphenous locations with ...
Purdue University

Novel device that enables blood collection anytime and anywhere listed with the FDA

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A device that makes it faster and more convenient to collect and process blood samples has been registered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Class 1 Medical ...
News Medical

Certain red blood cell manufacturing methods may be less damaging to cells than others

Scientists from Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, California, andCanadian Blood Services' Centre for Innovation lab in Edmonton, Alberta, report for the first time that specific red ...