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A team at the University of Brighton is building a new class of inexpensive, environmentally conscious medical sensors that aim to make testing cheaper and more widely available.
Over the past three years, researchers under Professor Bhavik Patel have reconsidered the fundamentals of how diagnostic sensors are designed and built. Rather than depending on intricate production lines and specialist facilities, the group has created devices that can be made with commonly available 3D printers and basic electronic parts. The result, they say, is a sharp drop in both cost and environmental footprint, along with a design that can be replicated in almost any location.
Professor Patel framed the motivation this way: “Around the world, millions of people don’t benefit from the latest diagnostic te