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outlier -> Liver Test For A Penny With No Laboratory (12/17/2011 10:30:49 AM)
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This is a story with a LOT of future potential.
NY TIMES: Far From Lab, Pieces Of Paper Find Illness
If you read far enough you will get to these paragraphs.
"Eventually, Dr. Ryan explained, the goal is for Diagnostics for All, which is nonprofit,
to wean itself off grant money by licensing its chip technology to commercial companies.
For example, she said, marathon runners might be able to touch a chip to their sweaty
foreheads to see if their electrolytes are still in balance before they drink more water.
Or Americans with high cholesterol taking statins, which can also cause liver damage,
might routinely monitor their liver enzymes with a finger prick.
Markets like those could give the company an income stream that would go a long way
toward supporting its research in Africa, Dr. Ryan said.
“Although,” she added, “there will be huge pushback from the lab companies,
because that’s their bread and butter.” " (emphasis added)
It will be interesting to watch this develop.
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