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A team has developed an app and small lens add-on that allows blood-cell analysis via a smartphone
The app, called Athelas, won a prize at a coding event held by the prestigious start-up hub Y Combinator.
The team says it can detect diseases such as malaria and cancers in seconds, through so-called predictive cell counting.
But experts warned of the difficulty of reproducing the quality of medical labs results using just a smartphone.
Users take a picture of their blood using the lens attachment, which is then sent to the app's servers, and the results are then sent back to them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28658155
The app, called Athelas, won a prize at a coding event held by the prestigious start-up hub Y Combinator.
The team says it can detect diseases such as malaria and cancers in seconds, through so-called predictive cell counting.
But experts warned of the difficulty of reproducing the quality of medical labs results using just a smartphone.
Users take a picture of their blood using the lens attachment, which is then sent to the app's servers, and the results are then sent back to them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28658155