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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A portable biodetection device with multiple applications
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:05
	Publish Date:		2016-06-07 19:00:00
	Description:		A portable biodetection device that’s bound for space so astronauts can easily give themselves health check-ups, has several terrestrial applications, too. Radiobiologist Matthew Coleman of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explains. "We’re really looking at science and technology impact with our handheld diagnostic device and providing really a generic platform for space travel, field medicine, in the clinic and in the environment. And I think this is also going to help to really push this idea of telemedicine and actually being able to do things like epidemiology. We could really get a lot of information about how we’re really treating people and who’s benefiting the most from which treatment." And this includes cancer patients. "To understand how people are responding to chemotherapy treatments throughout their whole process of being treated, so that we could quickly catch those relapsed or refractory cancers."
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