Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Blood tests are important diagnostic tools. They accurately tease-out vanishingly small concentrations of proteins and other molecules that help give a picture of overall health or signal the presence of specific diseases. Current testing procedures, however, are expensive and time-consuming, while sophisticated test equipment is bulky and difficult to transport.