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Pregnancy test

  • Peeing on a stick to test for pregnancy may soon be a thing of the past across the globe
    Medical
    World's first saliva pregnancy test goes on sale
    The days of urinating on a stick, and then sharing those sticks online, might be numbered, with the world’s first saliva pregnancy test hitting the market. The SaliStick can be taken anytime, anywhere, and in trials it has proven to be 95% accurate.
  • A fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-sensor developed for smartphones
    Medical
    Turning the smartphone into a mobile pregnancy test
    The latest advance in the area of smartphone diagnostics comes in the form of a fiber optic sensor that when attached to a phone's case, could monitor bodily fluids to test for things such as pregnancy or keeps tabs on diabetes.