AIDS - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:03:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png AIDS - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 A smartphone-based mobile lab? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/09/a-smartphone-based-mobile-lab/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:36:05 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=805 Engineers at Cornell University presented work on smartphone-based medicine at CLEO: 2013 last month, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Their creation is an external device that connects to a smartphone and can be used to diagnose Kaposi’s sarcoma and a slew of other serious conditions. Based on the press release, the smartphone itself isn’t doing… Read More »A smartphone-based mobile lab?

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]]> 4991 Making the myth of patient zero https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/26/making-the-myth-of-patient-zero/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:23:32 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=672 Don Sapatkin has a really interesting piece up at philly.com right now. It chronicles the origin of the “patient zero” narrative. If you’re not familiar, the story is that all known cases of HIV in the United States can be traced back to a single, unusually promiscuous individual, a flight attendant from Canada named Gaetan… Read More »Making the myth of patient zero

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