With scientists having invented a sensor that can detect
and diagnose cancer, HIV, hepatitis, and several other diseases, it is likely
that your phone could soon be on call as a diagnostic assistant. Developers are
working on ways to incorporate these sensors into a smart phone.
A couple of Russian scientists, Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury
Stebunov, have built a new ‘sensor’ that can detect cancer cells and diagnose
diseases such as HIV, hepatitis and herpes. The sensor can diagnose a range of
ailments from the privacy and comfort of the phone, at home, or anywhere.
"We are using a nano-mechanical circuit with a very
high sensitivity," Fedyanin told RIR.
Earlier, such technology and simulated diagnostics
worked only in very low temperatures, and in a vacuum. Fedyanin and Stebunov's
invention however, is unique, because it is designed to function at normal room
temperature and normal pressure.
Andrew Garazha, a researcher at Insilico Medicine at
Johns Hopkins University in the United States, is convinced that it
would be possible to place such a sensor inside a smart phone, and
monitor changes in the cell structure within one's body, allowing early
detection and diagnosis of some potentially deadly diseases.
"The clinical tests have yet to be done,'' Garazha
said."I doubt the sensor will be widely used by doctors, but it can start
a revolution at the pre-medical stage, when a patient doesn't yet know that
he/she is ill, and will then need to get tests done."
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