An IT research team has developed a new smartphone app that works in conjunction with a small lens add-on that can analyse allows blood in remote areas.

The app, called Athelas, won a prize at a coding event held by the prestigious start-up hub Y Combinator in July.

Users can take a picture of their blood using the lens attachment and then sent to the app’s servers. The results are then sent back to them.

In its submission to the Y Combinator competition, the designers say: “Literally every facet of the medical world relies on blood cell analysis to diagnose conditions. Malaria, chronic diseases, cancers, and all sorts of parasites are all first detected when a physician manually recognises the given cell type in your blood sample.

Source: www.pharmafile.com