{"id":71941,"date":"2017-08-15T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/researchers-enable-lab-grade-medical-tests-on-smartphones"},"modified":"2017-08-15T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:45:13","slug":"researchers-enable-lab-grade-medical-tests-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/researchers-enable-lab-grade-medical-tests-on-smartphones","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Enable Lab-Grade Medical Tests on Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-enable-lab-grade-medical-tests-on-smartphones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major step towards creating a tricorder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have invented a device that allows smartphones to perform the kinds of lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that previously had to be done on large and expensive instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The device, called a spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer, plugs into a smartphone and is able to run tests on a patient\u2019s blood, urine, or saliva as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars. The researchers say their TRI Analyzer costs only $550.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur TRI Analyzer is like the Swiss Army knife of biosensing,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/bioengineering.illinois.edu\/directory\/profile\/bcunning\">Prof. Brian Cunningham<\/a>, the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and director of the Micro + Nanotechnology Lab at Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singularityarchive.com\/researchers-enable-lab-grade-medical-tests-smartphones\/\">https:\/\/www.singularityarchive.com\/researchers-enable-lab-gr...artphones\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step towards creating a tricorder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have invented a device that allows smartphones to perform the kinds of lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that previously had to be done on large and expensive instruments. The device, called a spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer, plugs into a smartphone and is able [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71941","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}