Blood tests are to become painless as Tasso gains a $2.9m grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as its small business innovation research contract is expanded.
Tasso, a US-based medical technology company that is working with University of Wisconsin-Madison, has raised $2.9m in grant funding.
Tasso has developed a device that draws blood painlessly from the skin using capillary action. Currently the device can draw approximately 0.15 cubic centimetres of blood from a patient, enough for cholesterol, infection, cancer cells and blood sugar tests.
The funding has come from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It has extended Tasso’s phase II small business innovation research contract.
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