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Smartphone app can diagnose HIV remotely
News24 reports that South African and South Korean engineers and researchers are working on a smartphone application capable of doing AIDS tests in rural parts of Africa that are the worst hit by the disease. The application can photograph and analyse blood samples and even measure the health of immune systems to diagnose HIV, in areas far from laboratories. The team hopes that trials in clinics may start next year.
The gadget, called Smartscope, is a small 1mm microscope and light which clips over a smartphone's camera. A standard chip with a blood sample then slides into the gadget in front of the microscope. Next, a special phone programme photographs the sample and analyses the cells. "Our idea was to obtain images and analyse images on this smartphone using applications," said Jung Kyung Kim, a professor in biomedical engineering at Kookmin University in South Korea. According to News24, Smartscope will be able to do a CD4 cell count - a measure of white blood cells, which determines when treatment starts.
Read the full article on www.news24.com.
