[guide.chat] news phone detects cancer diabetis
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:34 -0000
iPhone doc will detect cancer, diabetes - boffins
Touch screen literally meets bleeding-edge science
Posted in Biology, 31st January 2012 14:22 GMT
A drop of blood or saliva can be analysed using an ordinary touch screen - and
once boffins perfect the identification of biological molecules, then diagnosis
by iPhone isn't far off.
The work is being done in South Korea, where researchers at the Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology have been spitting and bleeding onto
capacitive touch screens to see what details they can extract from the samples
using standard touchscreen tech.
Drop being placed on a touch-screen for analysis
The eggheads spoke to Reuters, promising "to diagnose a range of diseases from
cancer to diabetes".
It is early days, but the researchers explained that they can spot the presence
of biomolecules and must now attempt to identify what they are using a
touchscreen. Scientists with proper biomedical equipment in a lab can easily
differentiate between various biomolecules, of course.
The plan, therefore, is to create "a film covered in a substance which can
selectively react to certain biomolecules so that we can determine what those
biomolecules are", which would provide the same functionality, just not on a
standard iPhone screen.
The technology would certainly seem a contender for the latest X-Prize, which
requires the use of non-invasive techniques to diagnose illness. The taking of
blood was much debated by the team behind the prize, but a thin-enough needle
should allow a sample without the patient noticing and spitting is certainly
within the rules.
Given the ubiquity of touch screens it's not surprising that alternative
applications are being sought for them, and we look forward to the day we're
never more than gobbing distance of a diagnosis.
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