This new column features short items about sport research in progress or in print, highlights of recent or upcoming conferences, hot topics on mailing lists, and anything else of interest to the sport-science community.
Content can range from ground-breaking or gossipy.
Items will be edited and bounced back to you for approval. Now a blood lab fits in the palm of your hand. Single-use disposable cartridges containing sensors, a calibration solution, a fluid transport system, and a waste chamber perform the analyses. Cartridges are available for the analysis of sodium, potassium, chloride, pH, pCO2, pO2, bicarbonate, urea nitrogen, glucose, hematocrit, and more. It will work with blood from a finger or ear-lobe.