Ultrasound Diagnostic for Sickle Cell Disease

University of Colorado engineers have developed a new device for detecting sickle cells disease—they call it an “acousto thermal shift assay.”  “The technology uses ultrasound to heat a protein sample and then measures how it dissolves over time to identify the protein responsible for sickle cell disease. Relatively inexpensive and requiring only a simple camera (such as those on a smartphone), a power source and a microscope, the technology could be suitable for use in low-resource regions.“  MORE

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