{"id":30306,"date":"2018-10-26T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:50:26","slug":"cell-phone-based-tech-to-allow-at-home-blood-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cell-phone-based-tech-to-allow-at-home-blood-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone-based tech to allow at-home blood testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/cellphone-to-help-take-blood-test\/article23368985.ece\"><strong>Cell phone-based tech to allow at-home blood testing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new cell phone-based blood testing technology that can provide immediate results in the comfort of one\u2019s home or a doctor\u2019s clinic<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of South Florida in the U.S. have created a mobile version of the \u201cEnzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)\u201d, a technique used to detect the presence of an antibody or antigen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of sending patients to a laboratory, the cell phone-based technology allows for the very same test to be conducted in the doctor\u2019s office, clinic or even in a remote area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is MELISA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mobile Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (MELISA) device measures progesterone levels, a key hormone that impacts female fertility and is indicative of some cancers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MELISA consists of a water bath heater that incubates samples at a target temperature and analyses them via images taken by cellphone<\/li>\n<li>It uses colour analysis to determine the RGB (red, green, blue) colour components of each sample<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Need for MELISA<\/strong><br \/>\nTraditional systems for ELISA incubation and reading are expensive and bulky, thus cannot be used at point-of-care or in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell phone-based tech to allow at-home blood testing Context Scientists have developed a new cell phone-based blood testing technology that can provide immediate results in the comfort of one\u2019s home or a doctor\u2019s clinic What has been done? Researchers at the University of South Florida in the U.S. have created a mobile version of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cell-phone-based-tech-to-allow-at-home-blood-testing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cell phone-based tech to allow at-home blood testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914169},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}