What is HemoLink?
HemoLink is a golf ball sized device that is placed against an arm or the abdomen for 2 minutes. Microfluidics create a slight vacuum that pulls blood from capillaries through tiny channels in the skin and into a small tube. The device collects 150 uL of blood.
What is a Tasso device?
The Tasso-SST device delivers whole liquid blood samples prepared without anticoagulation, allowing immediate separation of serum for antibody and other testing. Adults and children can successfully collect blood samples at home without direct interaction at a lab or with a mobile phlebotomist.
Is Tasso FDA approved?
The Tasso-M20 has obtained CE mark certification and is registered with the FDA as a Class I product.
How do you use tasso for blood?
The Tasso Button sticks to the skin with a light adhesive. When the button is pressed, a vacuum forms and a lancet pricks the surface of the skin. The vacuum draws blood out of the capillaries and into a sample pod attached to the bottom of the Tasso Button.
What’s pork tasso?
Tasso ham is a spiced, smoked pork product made from boneless pork shoulder. That makes it fattier and richer than other types of ham, which are made from the leaner hind leg. Unlike ham, tasso isn’t typically eaten on its own. That is to say, you wouldn’t make a ham sandwich using tasso.
What does tasso taste like?
What does tasso taste like? Tasso has a salty and spicy flavor hence why it is often used in cajun-style dishes. Because of its spicy taste, tasso is typically used in dishes that could benefit from a more intense flavor. For example, it is commonly added to grits, gumbo, rice, soups, and gravies.
What is Cajun ham called?
tasso
One such meat that often gets overlooked in the specialty meat arena is tasso. Tasso, also known as Cajun ham, has a unique flavor that provides untapped potential in dishes outside traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine.
What is a French boudin?
noun, plural bou·dins [boo-dan; English boo-danz]. French Cooking. a blood sausage (boudin noir ) or sometimes a white sausage (boudin blanc ), made of chicken, pork, or veal.
How is boudin different from sausage?
Note that unlike many sausages, where uncooked meat is stuffed into a casing, boudin is made from cooked meat. That means curing isn’t necessary—although some recipes for homemade boudin do call for curing salt. (As always, follow the recipe you’re using.)
What is Tazo meat?
Tasso ham is a smoked, spiced, and cured meat, a specialty of south Louisiana cuisine. In this case “ham” is a misnomer since tasso is not made from the hind leg of a hog, but rather the hog’s shoulder. This cut is typically fatty, and because the muscle is constantly used by the animal, has a great deal of flavor.
What is Hemolink?
A medical startup company called Tasso Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin has been formed to commercialize this device. HemoLink is a golf ball sized device that is placed against an arm or the abdomen for 2 minutes. Microfluidics create a slight vacuum that pulls blood from capillaries through tiny channels in the skin and into a small tube.
How does a Hemolink blood collection device work?
HemoLink Blood Collection Device. HemoLink is a golf ball sized device that is placed against an arm or the abdomen for 2 minutes. Microfluidics create a slight vacuum that pulls blood from capillaries through tiny channels in the skin and into a small tube. The device collects 150 uL of blood.
When will the Hemolink device be available?
The HemoLink device is inexpensive to manufacture and Tasso hopes to have the device available to consumers in 2016. That might, however, depend on whether the Tasso scientists can develop a method to ensure blood sample stability. Photos of the device can be viewed in a Gizmag report.