At the EmTech 2010 conference this week in Boston, Technology Review TR35 winner Samuel Sia of Columbia University demoed the Claros Diagnostic point-of-care quantitative immunoassay system that can give PSA levels within 15 minutes with just a pinprick of blood. The entire demo can be viewed on the video below. Right now, the device is only approved in Europe and only for PSA levels, but Sia mentions that they have plans to expand to many other diseases and markers and have already identified around 10 others that they feel their device can identify at levels similar to the current gold standard of ELISA.
He then continues on to describe third world versions of the product, right now testing in Rwanda, which uses much less and even no power. (See bottom image: a handheld, battery-operated analyzer, developed in collaboration led by Professor Samuel Sia.) One version has mobile and satellite cards installed to interface with an EMR from anywhere the patient and device happen to be.
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