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$34 smartphone dongle allows 15-minute HIV test with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ lab test

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A team of biomedical engineers at Columbia University has developed a smartphone dongle costing just $34 that can conduct HIV tests with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ laboratory equipment costing over $18,000. The test, which also detects syphilis, takes just 15 minutes to run … 
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