A clinical-grade sample, collected anywhere

Microsampling,anywhere.

Patient-centric infrastructure for microsampling and monitoring

PulseFlow

Diagnostics has moved beyond the clinic.
Sample collection has not.

The needle. The journey. The missed appointment.

The patient who never gets there.
The sample collected too rarely to reveal a trend.
A single clinic door that becomes a single point of failure.

Healthcare is becoming remote, continuous and patient-centric, and diagnostics is decentralising with it. Yet sample collection still depends largely on clinic visits, trained personnel and conventional large-volume workflows.

20–30%of young adults experience needle fear1
52%of adults with needle fear report avoiding blood draws2
25 kmaverage round trip for an outpatient phlebotomy visit3

The sample should travel.
Not the patient.

  1. 1. McLenon J, Rogers MAM. “The fear of needles: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2019.
  2. 2. Alsbrooks K, Hoerauf K. “Prevalence, causes, impacts, and management of needle phobia: An international survey of a general adult population.” PLOS ONE, 2022.
  3. 3. Naugler C, Church D. “The contribution of patient travel for phlebotomy to the carbon footprint of clinical laboratories.” Clinical Biochemistry, 2026. Population analysis of 198,883 phlebotomy visits; mean round-trip distance 24.98 km.

Microsampling makes sample collection patient-centric.

Microsampling brings small-volume clinical collection closer to the patient: caregiver-assisted or self-sampled at home, supervised and professionally collected in a practice, pharmacy, clinic or ward.

A patient at home with a family member alongside, where a sample is self- or caregiver-collected
At home
A child with a parent and a clinician in a consulting room, where a sample is professionally collected or supervised
At the point of care
Two settings. One platform.

Collect at home, or at the point of care.

One infrastructure supports both settings: every collection is coordinated through Pulse and routed to the appropriate laboratory workflow.

We own no lab. We integrate with all.

To laboratories

So we never compete with you. We bring volume you don’t have to go and find: programmes with patients already enrolled, samples already collected, and results routed straight into your LIMS. Always fair.

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To programme owners

So the laboratory is your decision. Use the one you already work with, or one from our network, the same platform either way. Always your choice.

See laboratory services →

Every sample. One Pulse.

We begin with capillary blood, using advanced devices designed to minimise discomfort and make collection more approachable, even for children and people with needle fear. From there, our patient-centric sampling infrastructure extends across saliva, urine and stool.

We began with the part people fear.
And set out to make it feel like nothing.

Capillary blood, saliva, urine and stool, each coordinated through one platform, from collection and identity to custody, laboratory routing and results.

Samples and signals belong together.

Signals reveal the trend. Samples reveal the biology behind it. Pulse brings both into one longitudinal health record, connecting clinical biomarkers with clinical-grade continuous data from wearables and sensors. See monitoring →

Almost nobody holds both at scale. The two need different infrastructure, attestation and ingestion on one side, a regulated kit and a chain of custody on the other, which is why continuous signal and laboratory-validated ground truth so rarely end up in the same record.

OpenSampling by Humans Nexus

Evidence-based AI, cited to the source.

OpenSampling is the evidence-based AI of Humans Nexus. It reads the microsampling and monitoring literature to one standard, whichever device a study used, not only the ones we supply, and answers only from what that evidence shows.

Included with Pulse, free for verified researchers and healthcare professionals, or on its own monthly or yearly plan. Ask about methods and evidence, never about a named patient.

Read to one standard
Each paper is read to one standard: a paraphrased finding, and labels for specimen, device, signal and subject.
Every number checked
A deterministic check ties every number in an answer to the claim it cites, before anything is shown. A citation beside a wrong number stops the whole answer.
Refusal by design
No evidence, no answer. It names the nearest evidence it holds instead, and shows sources that disagree side by side, never averaged away.

Newest in the Library

  1. Clinical Validation of Venetoclax Volumetric Microsampling in Leukemia, with Whole-Blood-to-Plasma Conversion and Self-Microsampling Feasibility

    Clinical Pharmacokinetics · 2026 · Paywalled

    In AML and CLL, 91% of VAMS venetoclax results fell within 20% of plasma after individualised haematocrit correction; in home sampling, 18 of 21 patients self-sampled independently and 76% of returned samples were analysable,

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  2. To Convert or Not to Convert? Official IATDMCT Guideline on Converting Capillary-Blood Microsampling Concentrations to Plasma Concentrations

    Therapeutic Drug Monitoring · 2026 · Paywalled

    Guidance on capillary-to-plasma conversion: method- and analyte-specific clinical validation with paired capillary–venous

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  3. Comparison of self-collected oral swabs for supragingival microbiome characterization using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing

    Journal of microbiological methods · 2026 · Paywalled

    Participants preferred the Omnigene and Zymo oral swabs for comfort and ease of use, whilst the Omnigene device yielded the highest median bacterial DNA concentration compared to the other devices. The results indicate that the choice of self-collection device impacts

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What you can buy

Take the platform as far as you need.

Five layers carry a sample from collection to your LIMS, with identity and custody documented at every hand-off. Start with the layer you need today; add the rest when your programme asks for them.

  • Devices

The right collection device for your matrix and use case, supplied on its own, with no kit and no programme around it.

Exclusive importer and distributor of the YourBio TAP Micro Select for the EU, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

See the devices →

  • Devices
  • Kits

Configured kits combining the selected device with consumables, instructions, identifiers and packaging, assembled for your protocol.

Discuss kits →

  • Devices
  • Kits
  • Logistics

Collection kits with outbound and return logistics and documented chain of custody, with controlled-temperature transport where the assay requires it.

Discuss managed collection →

  • Devices
  • Kits
  • Logistics
  • Tracking & identity

Managed collection with participant identity, sample tracking and programme visibility through Pulse, and guided collection through Flow.

Discuss connected collection →

  • Lab

Connect an existing collection workflow to accredited analysis and structured result delivery. Available on its own; it does not require our devices, kits or logistics.

Use your own laboratory, or one from our network.

Discuss laboratory services →

  • Devices
  • Kits
  • Logistics
  • Tracking & identity
  • Lab

Devices, kits, logistics, identity, tracking and laboratory services, coordinated as one programme on one platform.

Discuss your programme →

Use only the layers you need. We connect the rest.

Logistics, in detail

Clinical-grade from collection to lab.

Every sample is sealed and tracked from the moment it's drawn, and temperature-logged where the assay requires it, the difference between a clinical-grade result and a consumer mail-in test.

  1. 01CollectGuided draw, timestamped
  2. 02SealTamper-evident, ID-matched
  3. 03ReturnDHL-powered, tracked and scanned
  4. 04Temp-logWhere the assay requires it
  5. 05LabCustody documented, accessioned
Use cases

What partners build on the platform.

Decentralised trials, therapeutic drug monitoring, population screening: clinical-grade collection, applied. See use cases →

For whom

Whoever runs the test.

LaboratoriesExtend your menu beyond conventional collection sites
Practices & clinicsOrder a test and pay what the laboratory charges
Pharma & CRODecentralised trials, real adherence
Digital healthAdd diagnostics to your app
InsurersPrevention and monitoring from consented biomarkers

We work through partners in healthcare, life sciences and public health. You keep the patient relationship; we provide the collection infrastructure behind it.

Pricing

Free to start. Rates on screen once you are verified.

Verify your organisation once, meet us for an onboarding call, and every rate is on screen before you order. Laboratories pay no joining fee, no subscription and no integration fee, at any level: one fee on the volume we bring them, and never a cent on the business they already have. Practices start free and pay the laboratory’s own price for a test, with no mark-up from us. Programmes start free too, and pay for what they ship.

LaboratoriesFree, always, at every level
Practices & clinicsFree for a single site
ProgrammesFrom €490 a month, or free on Standard

Device, kit and logistics rates depend on what you order and where it goes, so they live in your account rather than on a page. The custody fee is the one line that never varies: the same for every device and every country, falling with what you ship. Your own band is on screen in Pulse before you order, against the volume you have actually shipped. See the full pricing →

The category

What is microsampling?

Small-volume clinical samples, collected through patient-centric workflows, at home or at the point of care, by patients, caregivers or healthcare professionals. We begin with capillary blood and extend across saliva, urine and stool. Humans Nexus is the patient-centric infrastructure for microsampling and monitoring, the infrastructure decentralised diagnostics runs on: samples collected at home or at the point of care and analysed in ISO 15189-accredited laboratories, their results matched with continuous data from wearables, all on one platform.

What does Humans Nexus do?

Humans Nexus is the patient-centric infrastructure for microsampling and monitoring: regulated collection kits, clinical-grade logistics, verified identity and chain of custody, an accredited laboratory network and the software that runs it, so a sample taken at home or at the point of care becomes trusted clinical data.

Can we keep using our existing laboratory?

Yes. We own no laboratory, so we never compete with the labs we integrate. Use your own, or select one from our network; at home or at the point of care, the same laboratory selection applies, and we coordinate collection, custody and routing around it.

Who is Humans Nexus for?

Laboratories, pharma and CROs, digital-health companies, insurers and public health programmes. We work through partners, who reach the patient; Humans Nexus never sells directly.

Sovereign by design

Regulated. Sovereign.

EU-sovereign, MDR/IVDR- and GDPR-native: patient data stays under the patient’s control, custody documented end to end.

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