Igen kiváló könyv, mely véleményem szerint megállja a helyét a könyvek tucatjai közt, s sikeresen foglalja össze a legfontosabb biokémiai mechanizmusokat! Ajánlom mindenki figyelmében, aki mélyebb és komplexebb tudásra élezi ki agysejtjeit!

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To self-diagnose, spit on an iPhone

HANDHELD gadgets could one day diagnose infections at the push of a button by using the supersensitive touchscreens in today’s smartphones.

Many believe that in the future collecting samples of saliva, urine or blood could be performed using a cheap, USB-stick-sized throwaway device called a lab-on-a-chip. The user would inject a droplet of the fluid in the chip, and micropumps inside it would send the fluid to internal vessels containing reagents that extract target disease biomarker molecules. The whole device would then be sent to a lab for analysis.

But Hyun Gyu Park and Byoung Yeon Won at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology in Daejeon think touchscreens could improve the process by letting your phone replace the lab work. Park suggests the lab-on-a-chip could present a tiny droplet of the sample to be pressed against a phone’s touchscreen for analysis, where an app would work out whether you have food poisoning, strep throat or flu, for example.

“This is potentially possible,” says Harpal Minhas, editor of the journal Lab On A Chip. “But any changes to current production-line touchscreens would need to demonstrate huge financial benefits before they are implemented.” 

But will it still drop calls?

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HeLa (cancer) cells (300X)

(via Nikon Small World - 2011 - Thomas Deerinck)

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purkinje cells (some of the largest neurons in the human brain—the largest are coming up soon)

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phrenology bust, 1850 

F. Bridges

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Wounded monolayer of fibroblast cells in culture

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