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University of Utah Researchers

Caption: University of Utah researchers Marc Porter and Michael Granger with the test station they used to prove the principle that blood, saliva, urine or other fluids placed on a credit card-like sample stick could be tested for disease-related substances with the same technology used to read data on a computer hard drive or listen to tunes on a portable digital music player.

Credit: Eric Dufek, University of Utah

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