smartphone diagnosis

Smartphone-powered tool offers point-of-care infection diagnoses

By Dave Muoio 02:57 pm October 19, 2017

A multidisciplinary group of researchers have detailed a novel infectious disease diagnostic platform that relies on the user’s smartphone to provide point-of-care screening. Housed within a portable 3D-printed cradle, the tool uses the smartphone and an app to interpret real-time images of a microfluidic chip embedded on credit card-like cartridge. Researchers say it's the only point-of-care...

March launch for SkyLight's smartphone-microscope adapter

By Brian Dolan 04:16 pm February 6, 2012

SkyLight, an adapter that claims to connect almost any smartphone to any microscope will go on sale in March. The device's designers received funding to create the device via crowdsourcing funding site Kickstarter. The devicemakers designed the adapter so that it could upgrade older microscopes for the digital age with an eye on community healthcare workers in emerging markets as well as science...