{"id":306,"date":"2014-07-22T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=306"},"modified":"2014-07-23T19:39:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:39:45","slug":"new-student-app-potential-save-lives-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2014\/07\/22\/new-student-app-potential-save-lives-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"New Student App Has Potential to Save Lives Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2014\/07\/biomarker-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-315   \" alt=\"Kevin Hess demonstrates the mobile biomarker detection app at the OSU Engineering Expo.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/files\/2014\/07\/biomarker-cropped.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2014\/07\/biomarker-cropped.jpg 1057w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2014\/07\/biomarker-cropped-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1921\/files\/2014\/07\/biomarker-cropped-600x1024.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Hess demonstrates the mobile biomarker detection app at the OSU Engineering Expo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three Oregon State University computer science students worked with the <a href=\"http:\/\/remcho.science.oregonstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remcho Research Group<\/a> at Oregon State to develop an iPhone application to automate the testing of enzyme slides.<\/p>\n<p>The biomarker detection app was developed by Kyle Cesare, Kevin Hess and Joe Runde for their senior design project. The application speeds up the process of analysis, and will allow medical personnel and researchers to perform the tests without expensive equipment, such as remote locations in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile app complements a <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2014\/jul\/new-assay-spot-fake-malaria-drugs-could-save-thousands-lives\" target=\"_blank\">new type of chemical test the Remcho lab developed<\/a> to detect whether or not an antimalarial drug is genuine. Many lives are lost to the use of counterfeit antimalarial drugs \u2014 an estimated 200,000 a year according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The students are releasing the app under an open source license so others can build on the technology they developed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we could start to see a huge impact on global healthcare, especially in the developing countries, as people begin to see the power and convenience of mobile devices. I hope that our app helps that realization happen quicker,\u201d Kyle Cesare said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;by Rachel Robertson<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/0p5W3zUxvyA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Oregon State University computer science students worked with the Remcho Research Group at Oregon State to develop an iPhone application to automate the testing of enzyme slides. The biomarker detection app was developed by Kyle Cesare, Kevin Hess and Joe Runde for their senior design project. The application speeds up the process of analysis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216220],"tags":[216225,1231,216224,155,101813],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories","tag-biomarker-detection","tag-computer-science","tag-mobile-application","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}