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Innovative Telemicroscopy Solution Can Allow City-Based Pathologists to Diagnose Specimens from Remote Regions

Pathologists can Read Blood Samples Remotely and Render Diagnoses

Imagine using a miniaturized light field microscope attached to a mobile phone to support healthcare in remote and developing areas. One pioneering effort in this area won a 2010 Nokia Health Award and demonstrates to pathologists and clinical laboratory managers how innovative new technologies can be used to transform the way medical laboratory testing is performed.

A development team from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) decided to tackle the challenge of diagnosing disease in the rural areas of developing countries. The challenge is to provide advanced medical services to indigenous populations in remote regions where there is a lack of common medical services and equipment. (more…)

British Researchers Working on a Way to Use Cell Phones to Perform Pathology Tests for STDs

Clinical laboratory-on-a-chip would cost under £1 and allow young people to test themselves for sexually-transmitted diseases



Some wags call a new diagnostic testing concept the “pee in the cell phone” pathology lab test. The humor is directed at cell phone-based medical laboratory tests under development in the hopes that this confidential and private diagnostic test method will encourage more young people to undergo testing for sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).

Newspapers in the United Kingdom are reporting on a research project—funded in part by the government—to develop STD tests that can be run on a USB-size chip that is inserted into a smart phone or a personal computer.

This project is a response to the significant rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people. In the United Kingdom, the rate of new infections for herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhea are rising to record levels.

Clinical Laboratory Test on a Cell Phone or Personal Computer

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