{"id":383432,"date":"2017-08-15T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/15\/550-dock-turns-a-smartphone-into-a-medical-lab\/21|23077839"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:14:00","slug":"550-dock-turns-a-smartphone-into-a-medical-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/550-dock-turns-a-smartphone-into-a-medical-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"$550 dock turns a smartphone into a medical lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retrofitting medical technology onto smartphones isn&#8217;t anything new. We&#8217;ve already seen innovation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/02\/06\/hiv-smartphone-dongle\/\">HIV testing<\/a> and fertility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/23\/researchers-make-super-cheap-smartphone-sperm-test\/\">tracking<\/a>, for example. But researchers say the TRI analyzer boasts a wider spectrum of applications, and the relatively cheap, portable nature of the kit means it could have uses in other sectors such as animal health, food safety and environmental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/07\/01\/temperature-sensor-runs-almost-no-power\/\">monitoring<\/a>, as well as health diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our TRI Analyzer is like the Swiss Army knife of biosensing,&#8221; said Professor Brian Cunningham. &#8220;It&#8217;s capable of performing the three most common types of tests in medical diagnostics, so in practice, thousands of already-developed tests could be adapted to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrofitting medical technology onto smartphones isn&#8217;t anything new. We&#8217;ve already seen innovation in HIV testing and fertility tracking, for example. But researchers say the TRI analyzer boasts a wider spectrum of applications, and the relatively cheap, portable nature of the kit means it could have uses in other sectors such as animal health, food safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":383433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-383432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}