Cancer testing? there's an app for that.

• Autores: Melinda Wenner Moyer
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 304, Nº. 5, 2011, págs. 20-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article reports the use of smartphones by physicians to diagnose diseases, check blood cell counts, and identify pathogens in drinking water. An overview of results of a study published in a 2011 issue of "Science Translational Medicine" investigating the use of cell phones, coupled with a lunch box-size machine, to diagnose cancer from tiny tissue samples is presented.