Smartphone Device Runs ELISA Tests, Helps Fit a Clinical Lab in Doctor’s Tote
JULY 28TH, 2015 EDITORS
ELISA tests (enzyme-linked immunosorbant assays) are a standard in clinical laboratories for spotting antibodies that point to the presence of various diseases. The machines that analyze the ELISA plate samples are the size of desktop printers, and are not particularly portable if you want to use them outside the clinic. Now researchers at UCLA have developed a scaled down ELISA microplate reader that uses a standard smartphone for imaging, remote processing, and result readout. And it doesn’t cost thousands of dollars, while providing results comparable to professionally used equipment.
When the researchers compared the device against real samples tested by UCLA’s own clinical lab’s ELISA readers, the smartphone powered device had “99.6 percent accuracy in diagnosing mumps, 98.6 percent for measles, and 99.4 percent each for herpes simplex 1 and 2,” according to UCLA.
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