Researchers from IIT, Kharagpur have developed a low-cost diagnostic device which can perform various pathological tests by using blood taken from a finger-prick. The device requires only a paper strip based kit integrated with a smartphone to enable analytics and readout functions and an LED light for imaging, an IIT KGP statement said on 13th August. The key aspect of the kit, developed by a research team led by Prof. Suman Chakraborty, is operational simplicity and extremely low running cost, it said.
While under laboratory conditions each test would cost Re 1 or even less, the cost is expected to marginally vary in case of commercialization of the product, the statement said. On the operational front, the device requires a single drop of blood and a drop of reagent (a substance used to cause a chemical reaction) on the paper-based reaction chamber. This detection method is designed…
