Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biological Smears to Diagnose Illness

Technology is continuing to expand to places never before imagined.  A few researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology think we could simplify the process of diagnosing simple illnesses right on our smart phones. They believe that the technology that senses our fingers on the screen is sensitive enough to read the capacitance ( value of electrical impulse) of a blood, or saliva sample and be able to diagnose illness. So far no results have been collected but they have shown the ability to use the technology to differentiate between different samples of bacteria genetic material.

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