A new cell phone-sized blood analysis device is being developed for NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) by Professor Yu-Chong Tai and his team from Caltech. In the making since April 2004, the miniature blood analysis device has been developed ever since by about a dozen researchers working to transform the crude apparatus into a functional, space-capable technology. The chip-based device will perform a simple blood test in about two minutes. Apart from counting red and white blood cells (RBCs and WBCs), the team believes the new technology has great potential as a tool for analyzing fluids such as blood plasma and urine and even as a tool for cancer detection and DNA analysis.

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