Nokia and the XPrize Foundation announce the Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE as a complement to the on-going Qualcomm Tricorder X Challenge.
Tag: Lab on a Chip
Smartphone smelling technology tasked with sniffing out disease
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology are developing an “electronic nose” that is capable of detecting chemical vapors. The team is led by Nate Lewis, a chemist.
Smartphones with sensitive touchscreens could one day diagnose diseases
Smartphones have the potential to one day diagnose diseases by taking the lab-on-a-chip concept and using the touchscreens to diagnose fluid samples
Detecting ovarian cancer using a medical app on a smart phone
A paper recently published in Lab on a Chip (a RSC Publication) by researchers from Harvard Medical School describes a new technique to read ELISA results with a cell phone camera.
