{"id":4172,"date":"2016-01-12T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:07:15","slug":"tech-tools-dialing-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2016\/01\/tech-tools-dialing-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tools: Dialing in a Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3406-2_EDIT_CMYK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4297\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3406-2_EDIT_CMYK-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dialing in a Diagnosis\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3406-2_EDIT_CMYK-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3406-2_EDIT_CMYK-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3406-2_EDIT_CMYK-768x1154.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Chlamydia has become one of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States, generating an astounding 4 million to 8 million new cases each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>If only there were an app for diagnosing chlamydia over the phone so patients wouldn\u2019t have to leave home. This idea could be close to a reality, says <a href=\"http:\/\/me.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">mechanical engineering<\/a> professor <a href=\"http:\/\/me.jhu.edu\/faculty\/tza-huei-jeff-wang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tza-Huei \u201cJeff\u201d Wang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He and his colleagues recently debuted a device that slips over a cellphone and uses a custom app to process patient swab samples to diagnose chlamydia. A microfluidics cartridge inside runs a nucleic acid amplification test that can confirm or deny a chlamydia diagnosis in less than an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers proposed that with some tweaks, this device\u2014currently the size of a small coffee cup\u2014might eventually be small enough for practical home use.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlamydia has become one of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States, generating an astounding 4 million to 8 million new cases each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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