The finger prick, and what happens next
A TwinMe kit uses a tiny finger prick at home. No clinic, no fasting, no needle fear. Here is the path your sample takes.
At home: 5 minutes a day for 5 days
The kit contains a sterile lancet, a set of dried blood spot (DBS) cards, and simple step-by-step instructions. In the morning, you warm your fingertip, click the lancet, and let 2 drops of blood fall onto the card. The whole routine takes about 5 minutes.
You repeat it for 5 days in a row. No fasting, no appointment, no clinic visit. Five cards over five days captures your biology across a normal week of your life instead of freezing it into a single snapshot. That matters, because a single morning blood draw mostly tells you about that morning. Five cards tell you about you.
When the week is finished, you seal the cards, drop the package in the mail, and forget about it. The hard work happens next.
In the BioTwin lab
Your cards arrive at the BioTwin laboratory. Each DBS card is reconstituted, the blood is recovered into liquid form, and the sample is fed into a mass spectrometer. The raw molecular signal is captured and stored.
From there, the pipeline takes over. Biomarker signals are extracted computationally from the raw spectra, cleaned, and normalized against BioTwin population reference data so your values can be compared meaningfully. Those normalized signals are then aggregated into your personalized scores. Nothing is guessed. Every score traces back to the molecules actually present in your blood.
In your TwinMe account
Within 1 to 3 months, your scores appear in your TwinMe account. If you have sent more than one kit, you also see trend charts showing how each score has moved since your previous sample. Our wellness programs all start from this kind of sample, and each one reads your biomarkers through its own lens.
And because BioTwin keeps the raw signal, your twin can keep learning: new analyses can be applied to your stored signal profile, without another finger prick.