Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are creating a mobile sensor technology called PathTracker for performing detection and identification of viral and bacterial pathogens. By means of a smartphone-based detection instrument, the results are shared with a cloud-based data management service that will enable physicians to rapidly visualize the geographical and temporal spread […]

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point of care using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card. The group is […]

Yue Zhuo, PHD ’15 BIOE and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently earned the 2017 Microscopy and Microanalysis Postdoctoral Scholar Award for her conference paper, “Label-free Imaging of Stem Cell Adhesion and Dynamic Tracking of Boundary Evolution using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy” (PCEM). The Microscopy Society of America presented the award […]

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that typically require large, expensive instruments. Costing only $550, the spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer from Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Brian Cunningham’s lab attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or […]