How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
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Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#2TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a person or object from a distance without direct physical contact. Based on the video in the article, it still requires a blood sample to be inserted for direct analysis. Really cool, but not quite a Star Trek tricorder just yet.
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#3If you can't watch the video, or have audio for whatever reason, her company news room page has plenty of content about the device http://www.nanobiosym.com/index.php/news-room/
rant: I've never liked article titles like these
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#4TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a person or object from a distance without direct physical contact. Based on the video in the article, it still requires a blood sample to be inserted for direct analysis. Really cool, but not quite…
I was curious about the list of conditions it can detect. I wonder how long it takes, how long between uses, what the maintenance is. When will I be able to walk into Walgreens and get my results?
"enables gold standard real-time diagnosis of any disease with a genetic fingerprint"
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#5I actually think that is massively cool. In particular for remote areas or for natural disaster response where local hospitals could be unsafe/unavailable.
I will say comparing it to a "tricorder" does the device a disservice. It isn't even trying to be one, it is trying to be something else entirely, and all it will get for being called that is criticism that it isn't tricorder-enough.
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#6very cool. How far are we with this type of devices? Cost? Availability?
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#7If you can't watch the video, or have audio for whatever reason, her company news room page has plenty of content about the device http://www.nanobiosym.com/index.php/news-room/ rant: I've never liked article titles like these
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Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#8Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#9TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a person or object from a distance without direct physical contact. Based on the video in the article, it still requires a blood sample to be inserted for direct analysis. Really cool, but not quite…
Even with the blood sample "shortcoming", it will be huge if it keeps to its promise.
But I learned not to get excited by new medical inventions before a few years pass, before it's FDA approved, before there are enough studies that prove it really does what it says it does, etc.
Cool video. A woman writing some formulas, nano technology, DNA sequences, etc. All cool stuff.
Theranos also had some cool stuff to show but...
Re: How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
#10TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a person or object from a distance without direct physical contact. Based on the video in the article, it still requires a blood sample to be inserted for direct analysis. Really cool, but not quite…
Even with the blood sample "shortcoming", it will be huge if it keeps to its promise. But I learned not to get excited by new medical inventions before a few years pass, before it's FDA approved, before there are enough studies that prove it really does what it says it does, etc. Cool video. A woman writing some formulas, nano technology, DNA sequences, etc. All cool stuff. Theranos also had some cool stuff to show b…
I agree, it's super cheesy/cliche that she is writing formulas on windows and stuff, but it makes for nice TV.