At a time when patients and medical professionals expect faster results, researchers are trying to translate biodetection technologies used in laboratories to the field and clinics, so patients can get instant diagnoses in a physician's office, an ambulance or the emergency room.
The researchers created an eight-channel smartphone spectrometer that can detect human interleukin-6 (IL-6), a known biomarker for lung, prostate, liver, breast and epithelial cancers. A spectrometer analyses the amount and type of chemicals in a sample by measuring the light spectrum. Although smartphone spectrometers exist, they only monitor or measure a single sample at a time, making them inefficient for real-world applications.................Read more
Source: The Times of India
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