A team led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has devised a smartphone accessory that can test for HIV and syphilis in 15 minutes. The dongle plugs into the phone's headphone jack and uses an app to produce the test results.
Scanning blood from a finger prick, Sia's device looks for three infectious disease markers: HIV antibodies, which typical tests look for; and treponemal-specific and non-treponemal antibodies for syphilis, which basically distinguish between active and inactive syphilis infections.
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Repent4Life
I'm sure big pharmaceuticals and their paid government lackeys/stooges will make this disappear, we will never see it in the wild.
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carolinawahoo
"Before we go out tonight be sure to text me your HIV results, mmmmkay? Thx"
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Thye Black
Now we just need one to test for Ebola.
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