A portable device for nucleic acid quantification powered by sunlight, a flame or electricity

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 657-665

  Snodgrass, Ryan ^a   Gardner, Andrea ^b   Semeere, Aggrey ^c   Kopparthy, Varun Lingaiah ^a   Duru, Jens ^a   Maurer, Toby ^d   Martin, Jeffrey ^d   Cesarman, Ethel ^b   Erickson, David ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; ELECTRICAL POWER; FIELD DIAGNOSTICS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERMITTENT ENERGY SOURCE; PORTABLE DEVICE; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

OUTAGES;

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FLAME; HEALTH CENTER; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SUNLIGHT; UGANDAN;

EID: 85053259505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2157846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-018-0286-y     Document Type: Article

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