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Cell Phone Microsocope Can Diagnose Your Parasites

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2008-03-19 09:46:36 by Evan Ackerman in OhGizmo!
...diagnose patients in remote areas over the phone. The CellScope comes in two powers: 5x, for diagnosing skin conditions, and 60x, which is enough magnification to diagnose malaria in a blood sample, or perform white blood cell counts for leukemia patients. The first prototype was built entirely of off-the-shelf components for about 75 bucks,...
 
Tags: phone, cool bugs, sample, researchers hope, blood sample, researchers, phone call, mit technology review, cool
 
 
 
 
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Cell Phone Microsocope Can Diagnose Your Parasites

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2008-03-19 09:46:36 by Administrator in Oblingo!
...diagnose patients in remote areas over the phone. The CellScope comes in two powers: 5x, for diagnosing skin conditions, and 60x, which is enough magnification to diagnose malaria in a blood sample, or perform white blood cell counts for leukemia patients. The first prototype was built entirely of off-the-shelf components for about 75 bucks,...
 
Tags: phone, cool bugs, sample, researchers hope, blood sample, researchers, phone call, mit technology review, cool
 
 
 
 
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Lab-on-a-Chip Samples Saliva, Might Diagnose a Heart Attack

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2008-05-13 16:32:49 by Michael in Medgadget
...diagnose a range of acute and chronic conditions, including possibly an ongoing myocardial infarction: Many heart attack victims, especially women, experience nonspecific symptoms and secure medical help too late after permanent damage to the cardiac tissue has occurred, says John T. McDevitt, principal investigator and designer of the...
 
Tags: heart attack, saliva, future heart attack, sample, noninvasive saliva sample, blood serum proteins, blood serum, diagnose heart attack, research
 
 
 
 
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MRI for Detection of Early Arthritis

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2008-08-21 09:09:28 by Michael in Medgadget
...diagnose, Regatte points out. By then, however, joint replacement may be the only option. With early detection, physicians could prescribe dietary supplements, medication or other measures to ward off further cartilage damage Given the lack of knowledge about OA, I think any method that is noninvasive and relatively easy to apply will be...
 
Tags: cartilage, cartilage disorders, articular cartilage, assess cartilage health, diagnose osteoarthritis, osteoarthritis, cartilage damage, gag, concentration
 
 
 
 
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No More Needles with Virtual Biopsies

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2008-01-22 09:22:18 by Josh in Medgadget
...diagnose cervical and skin cancers Bioimpedance measures the electrical characteristics of biological tissue and is used by gyms to calculate amounts of lean tissue, water and fat It has only recently been applied to biological tissue to determine healthy, cancerous or dead cells, Mr Smith said It offers the possibility of a simple device...
 
Tags: bioimpedance, bioimpedance spectroscopy, bioimpedance technique, tissue, biological tissue, cells, cells structure, technique, cells membranes
 
 
 
 
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Hosted VoIP Packet Sniffing

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2008-01-22 17:25:22 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...diagnose a broad variety of network problems PacketPro offers the following key benefits Capture network traffic snapshots from customer sites at the click of a button Troubleshoot complex voice-video-data problems by decoding over 750 protocols using Ethereal/ Wireshark Perform VoIP assessments to determine LAN/WAN capacity issues...
 
Tags: packet, packetpro, voip, remote ethereal sniffer, sniffer, plug-and-play packetpro kit, troubleshoot complex, packet island, complex
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 Star Trek Tech that are here for real.

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2008-03-12 06:38:53 by HASH0x8b35e8c in Newlaunches.com
...diagnose diseases and collect bodily information about a patient; when Enterprise crew members became sick, Dr. McCoy was able to diagnose the problem in record time, usually thanks to his medical tricorder. Today's physicians make use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and CAT scans in much the same way. For smaller bugs, NASA has actually...
 
Tags: real, star trek, real-life astronauts, tricorder type device, tricorder, detect, detect life, life, replica star trek
 
 
 
 
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Internet/Email/Text messaging addiction soon to be official

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2008-03-18 20:20:06 by willpark in IntoMobile
...diagnose the condition Apparently, compulsive internet/email/text messaging behavior is quite prevalent, and it works like any other addiction. Internet addicts experience cravings, urges, withdrawal and tolerance - which leads to the addict seeking more and more online time to satisfy their urges. Dr. Jerald Block, a psychiatrist with the...
 
Tags: internet, describes internet addiction, internet addiction, addiction, internet addicts suffer, text, wacky sms text, addicts, addiction straight
 
 
 
 
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Cell Phone Microscope

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2008-03-20 03:59:26 by posted by Pantha in
...diagnose patients in remote areas over the phone. Dubbed the CellScope, you get 5x magnification for diagnosing skin conditions and 60x which is powerful enough to magnify and diagnose malaria in a blood sample. Heck, you can also use it to count white blood cells in leukemia patients. The initial prototype was constructed from off-the-shelf...
 
Tags: phone, cell phone telescopes, cellscope, initial prototype, medical lab, blood sample, skin conditions, diagnose malaria, medical purposes
 
 
 
 
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Cell Phone Microscope

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2008-03-19 19:59:26 by Editor in