Brad Reisfeld is a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, and public health at Colorado State University. Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health.

Learn what the albumin blood test means for your health, how it’s done, and what low or high levels can reveal about your ...

A D-dimer test measures how much D-dimer protein is in the blood. This protein is present when blood clots break down. A typical range is 0-0.50 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of blood. D-dimer is a ...

When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

If your doctor suspects you may have exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), they’ll order a range of blood tests to check nutrient and enzyme levels. Share on Pinterest andresr/Getty Images While ...

What if a blood test could reveal the pace of our aging – and the diseases that may lie ahead? The labs of Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay at the Weizmann Institute of Science have been conducting ...