'Blood lab' inside a mobile phone could detect cancer
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 12:02
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are in the early stages of an 'e-health technology' project aimed at developing a mobile phone app that can examine blood sample images and diagnose cancer. It would work by taking a magnified image of a blood slide via a microscopic lens attached to the smart phone, which the app would then be able to screen for evidence of leukemia -- a blood cancer.