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Smartphone science: apps test and track infectious diseases

The prevalence, power and portability of smartphones make them valuable tools for pathogen monitoring and citizen science.
  1. Sandeep Ravindran

    1. Sandeep Ravindran is a science writer in Washington DC.

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A composite image of a smartphone showing a picture of a mosquito on the screen

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Debojyoti Chakraborty took just a few months to develop a COVID-19 diagnostic test that worked in his lab; the challenge was to optimize it for the field.

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Nature 593, 302-303 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01253-y

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