date:Jul 22, 2013
o develop hand-held detection technology that the average consumer can use to scan foods at the grocery store.
Smartphones are making a big impact on our society -- the way we get our information, the way we communicate, he adds. And they have really powerful computing capability and imaging ... They can detect molecular things like pathogens, disease biomarkers or DNA -- things that are currently only done in big diagnostic labs with lots of expensive and large volumes of blood.