{"id":31828,"date":"2016-11-10T13:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-develop-new-type-of-hiv-test-on-a-usb-stick"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:10","slug":"scientists-develop-new-type-of-hiv-test-on-a-usb-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-develop-new-type-of-hiv-test-on-a-usb-stick","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new type of HIV test on a USB stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-type-of-hiv-test-on-a-usb-stick.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HIV diagnotistic on a USB stick <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-smile\" title=\":)\">smile<\/span>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 Scientists in Britain have developed a type of HIV test using a USB stick that can give a fast and highly accurate reading of how much virus is in a patient\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n<p>The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and the privately-held U.S. firm DNA Electronics, uses a drop of blood to detect HIV, then creates an electrical signal that can be read by a computer, laptop or handheld device.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say the technology, although still in the early stages, could allow patients to regularly monitor their virus levels in a similar way to diabetes patients checking their blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/10\/scientists-develop-new-type-hiv-test-on-usb-stick.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/10\/scientists-develop-...stick.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV diagnotistic on a USB stick smile LONDON \u2013 Scientists in Britain have developed a type of HIV test using a USB stick that can give a fast and highly accurate reading of how much virus is in a patient\u2019s blood. The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and the privately-held U.S. firm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65800,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions\/65800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}