Cholesterol Testing on a Smartphone

With a new smartphone device, you can now take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that could save your life – it reads your cholesterol level in about a minute.
Forget those clumsy, complicated, home cholesterol-testing devices. Cornell engineers have created the Smartphone Cholesterol Application for Rapid Diagnostics, or “smartCARD,” which employs your smartphone’s camera to read your cholesterol level.

Read more:
Picture of health: a selfie that may save your life

Source: Cornell Chronicle
Image credits: Jason Koski/University Photography

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