Daily Monitoring of Kidney Disease at Home
May 26, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
There’s not much detail in this piece—not enough to tell whether a pregnancy test-like device that can quantify protein in urine is capable of quantifying one or multiple proteins, but a proteinuria monitor for home use is a wonderful idea, and even better with wireless data transmitting capability. The name for the technology is “quantitative electrochemical lateral flow assay” and it uses nanoparticles to detect the protein—with results in seconds. MORE
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