instant remote diagnosis of the user’s health and emotional state via CellPhone
Japanese cellular operator, NTT DoCoMo, claims to have demonstrated a ‘molecular delivery system’ that it one day hopes to incorporate into cellphones enabling instant remote diagnosis of the user’s health and emotional state. The cellphone would be equipped with a ‘biochip’ – a fingertip-sized microchip for biological and chemical analysis that would be capable of extracting single molecules from the user’s sweat, or blood and by analysing these identify a range of diseases, or simply the person’s level of stress, anxiety or excitement. The data generated from the biochip would be transmitted to a medical specialist over the cellular network.
The successful experiment for the world’s first molecular delivery system for molecular communication were carried out jointly with professor Kazuo Sutoh of the Department of Life Sciences and associate professor Shoji Takeuchi of the Institute of Industrial Science, both at the University of Tokyo. DoCoMo and The University of Tokyo say they are continuing their collaborative research into practical uses of molecular communication to identify applicable molecules and to develop an actual molecular delivery system for installation in a biochip.
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