HOUSTON – A mobile device that looks like an iPad uses a single drop of blood or saliva to diagnose some of the world's most devastating diseases.
Houston pediatrician Dr. Bas Nair is the Global Medical Advisor for the Nanobiosym board, the company behind the technology.
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He told KPRC Local 2, "With this nanotechnology, the diagnosis [...] is one hour or less, and that is an amazing game changer. This is going to change the world."
Harvard and MIT educated physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel developed the Nanobiosym Gene-RADAR® technology which can test for diseases like Ebola, e. coli, tuberculosis, AIDS and HIV.
She explained, "If a person has the HIV virus [...] a test that typically [costs] 200 dollars and [takes] two weeks in the developed world and six months in sub-Saharan African, and we can do it at real time for a price 10 to 100 times cheaper."
Dr. Nair is eager to introduce the device to the Texas Medical Center.
He said, "This would be a gift for the first time in Houston which nobody else in the country has."
Dr. Goel added that Gene-RADAR technology could be the key to revolutionizing healthcare around the world.
She told Local 2, "We're doing for healthcare what cell phones did for the telecommunications industry; what Google did for the information industry. We're decentralizing, mobilizing and personalizing the next generation of healthcare so that anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world can have access to information about their own health."