FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽April 08, 2014

Scientists use Google Glass to map the future of medical testing (video)

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2014 鈥� A team of researchers at UCLA has transformed Google Glass into powerful, wearable medical testing laboratory. Aydogan Ozcan and his team developed an application that reads dozens of different types of diagnostic tests for malaria, prostate cancer and HIV, to name a few. Glass uploads the results to secure servers and provides anonymous data to epidemiologists. In the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网鈥檚 (ACS鈥�) newest Breakthrough Science video, Ozcan demonstrates how the app works, and explains the broad impact it could have on medicine. The video is available at .

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