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Title: $34 iPhone dongle allows 15-minute HIV test with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ lab test Post by: HCK on February 23, 2015, 09:00:22 pm $34 iPhone dongle allows 15-minute HIV test with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ lab test
A team of biomedical engineers at Columbia University has developed an iPhone dongle costing just $34 that can conduct HIV tests with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ laboratory equipment costing over $18,000. The test, which also detects syphilis, takes just 15 minutes to run … The work was reported in the Science Translational Medicine journal (via GigaOM). […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=366198&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Source: $34 iPhone dongle allows 15-minute HIV test with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ lab test (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/br196bOCEqw/) |