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A Software-Powered Cell Phone Microscope That Doesn't Need Special Lenses
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Sensor-Equipped Contact Lens Monitors Glaucoma Symptoms Around the Clock
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In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Made of Jell-O and Foil Detects...
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Radar Gun Diagnoses Head Trauma By Scanning a Person's Gait
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X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder to Diagnose Patients
Tricordervia PhotobucketLabs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms. The X Prize Foundation, responsible...
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Controversial Blood Test To Predict How Long You Will Live
Check Those TelomeresYour longevity depends on them.NASAIn the UK, you can get the length of your telomeres measured A new test set to hit the market in Britain in the next year aims to tell patients...
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Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biological Smears to Diagnose Illness
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Handheld Pathogen Sensor Could Diagnose HIV in 30 Minutes
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Using the Microsoft Kinect to Detect Autism
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New Prenatal Blood Tests Can Identify Paternity of an Eight-Week Fetus
Prenatal Paternity Testing from a Simple Blood TestU.S. NavyAn interesting story in the New York Times today explores the ease with which noninvasive prenatal diagnostics can now determine paternity,...
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A Software-Powered Cell Phone Microscope That Doesn't Need Special Lenses
Microscope, Sans Optics Dr. Ozcan's cell phone microscope works by shining light onto a sample and recording the way it reflects off different cells in the sample, quickly finding and diagnosing...
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Sensor-Equipped Contact Lens Monitors Glaucoma Symptoms Around the Clock
Sensimed's Triggerfish Lens A circular strain gauge in the contact lens detects changes in the diameter of the eye. The tiny microelectromechanical systems chip then reads the data and transmits the...
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In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Made of Jell-O and Foil Detects...
Gelatin Diagnostics Texas Science If there were a distinction one could earn for practicing smart medicine on a shoestring, a UT grad student would be high in the running. Using a aluminum foil,...
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Radar Gun Diagnoses Head Trauma By Scanning a Person's Gait
When a Helmet Isn't Enough A new device may soon enable doctors and medical personnel to quickly diagnose concussions by analyzing a person's gait. U.S. Army Concussions have been getting a lot of air...
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X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder to Diagnose Patients
Tricorder via Photobucket Labs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms. The X Prize Foundation,...
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Controversial Blood Test To Predict How Long You Will Live
Check Those Telomeres Your longevity depends on them. NASA A new test set to hit the market in Britain in the next year aims to tell patients how long they have to live, and naturally that's not...
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Diagnostics For All Liver-Function Test
Diagnostics For All Liver-Function Test Jeff Harris A quarter of the 13 million patients worldwide who are undergoing treatment for HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis will die not from their diseases, but from...
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Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biological Smears to Diagnose Illness
Diagnosis via Touchscreen DanielZanetti via WikimediaThe lab-on-a-chip model has been praised as the future of simplified diagnostic medicine--place a sample of saliva, blood, or urine on a small...
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The One-Cent Solution
Scrappy George Whitesides and Una Ryan's fast and cheap diagnostic device could save millions of lives every year Webb Chappell Twenty years ago, the Pentagon asked George M. Whitesides, a chemist at...
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Handheld Pathogen Sensor Could Diagnose HIV in 30 Minutes
Chaining Synthetic DNA to Detect Pathogens Two Y-shaped structures of synthetic DNA attach themselves to the target molecule in different places. From there, the other two arms of the "Y" can link...
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