Ring the Doctor

Investigación y Desarrollo

Will wonders never cease? Hardly ~ and here's one of the latest: a ring that diagnoses four of the major STDs. It's the brainchild of Mexican mechanical engineer Ernesto Rodríguez Leal but is really a very international product, developed in a Mexican startup in Silicon Valley with the help of a Kazakh biotechnologist and a Russian finance expert. Here's how it works: The ring goes on the thumb, and with the press of a button, an electrical pulse anesthetizes the area, a tiny needle punctures the skin, and a drop of blood is drawn up by capillary action to a chip that analyzes it. The results are sent to a smartphone or tablet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150821172213.htm