A pregnancy test based on standard DVD technology has the potential to be turned into a diagnostic platform that screens for abnormal pregnancies or even testicular cancer.
The DVD assay design and signal reading principle
We all hate waiting for tests results, especially when it comes to medical tests where the uncertainty of not knowing what’s wrong can be a real worry. As a result, the development of diagnostic tests that can be performed wherever the patient is, whether that is at home, in a doctor’s surgery or in a medical centre in the developing world, obtaining almost instantaneous results is a current hot topic. Over the past few years, a wide range of point-of-care diagnostic platforms have been developed and the field holds tremendous potential, perhaps one day eliminating the need for laboratory-based diagnostic tests altogether.
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DVD technology-based molecular diagnosis platform: quantitative pregnancy test on a disc
Xiaochun Li, Samuel Weng, Bixia Ge, Zhihui Yao and Hua-Zhong Yu
Lab Chip, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3LC51411K, Paper
