Turns 'cricket' into a diagnostic tool

University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.A.) engineers have developed a device that can turn mobile phones, more precisely, into camera phones, become diagnostic tools for contaminated water or Monitor disease progression in people with HIV.

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The device, when attached to the phone, will allow the camera to capture images commonly seen from fluorescence microscopes or flow cytometers, which are instrumental in counting and pointing to cellular characteristics in samples. liquid.

This allows health workers in resource-poor areas to easily diagnose HIV and other human causes.

The university's cost is less than $ 50, plus the cost of a phone, while normal incubators can cost more than $ 150,000, and should work under laboratory conditions, according to the report. san Journal of Visualized Experiments.