Subject: Canadian team's portable device could ease HIV/AIDS monitoring

Postmedia News - December 12, 2011

By Hilary Roberts

Canadian researchers have invented a device that could make it easier, faster and cheaper to track the progression of HIV in patients living in the developing world.

A team led by University of Toronto student James Dou; Stewart Aitchison, Dou's research adviser; and researcher Rakesh Nayyar from Toronto's University Health Network has created a portable device that uses a computer chip with software capable of analyzing blood tests outside the lab.

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