S. Korea Institute Develops Cigarette Pack-Size Home Urine Tester
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute says it has developed a urine tester as small as a pack of cigarettes. Researchers said the device, believed to be the world's smallest, was designed to enable patients with chronic illnesses to check their own conditions. The home tester is called the Personal Uroanalysis Reading Device. Instead on analyzing a color image of a urine sample, as done by large devices, UroRead relies on small LEDs in the form of computer chips. (Click here for more