A Star Trek-style gadget that can detect cancers and other diseases without the need for surgery is being developed by scientists.
By Richard Alleyne
The team at Yale University claim the portable biomarker detector will be able to identify signs of illness from a sample of blood within 20 minutes.
The device, similar to Dr McCoy’s tricorder in the science fiction series, could revolutionise patient diagnosis which at present is both expensive and time consuming.
The device, expected to be about the size of a paperback book, works by detecting biomarkers in the blood, substances that suggest that a patient is diseased. Read More…
