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Smartphone app to act as cheap disease-detecting device   Washington: Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that uses the mobile's built-in camera and processing power as a biosensor to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses and other molecules. The app and cradle system for smartphones has sensitive biosensing capabilities that could enable on-the-spot tracking of groundwater...

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