CIA quietly invests in Cambridge company developing way to draw blood painlessly

Xconomy reports the CIA's venture-capital arm (yes, of course it has one), has put some money into Seventh Sense Biosystems, which is working on a bandage-like thing to suck blood out of your arm for testing without the need for needles - along with add-on gizmos that could then monitor that blood for various substances:

TAP penetrates the uppermost layers of skin and uses a microfluidic extraction process to transfer blood to a collection reservoir for analysis.