Researchers from South Africa and South Korea are developing a
smartphone-based device and application able to "photograph and analyze
blood samples in areas far from laboratories to diagnose HIV and even measure the health of [patients'] immune systems,"
Agence France-Presse
reports. The device, called Smartscope, is a small microscope that
clips over a phone's camera and holds a standard chip with a blood
sample, the news service notes, adding the camera then photographs the
sample and the application analyzes the photo to produce a CD4 cell
count. "The team hopes that trials in clinics may start next year,"
according to AFP (8/31).
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