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Modern-Day Tricorder

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MICHAEL D. WHEELER, MANAGING EDITOR, [email protected]

In 2017, Qualcomm announced the winners of the much-publicized Tricorder XPRIZE, which challenged inventors to develop a device that could replicate the function of the tricorder in the “Star Trek” television series. The fictional gadget was used by the crew of the USS Enterprise to diagnose medical conditions with a quick scan across a patient’s body. Building a hand-held medical device that can diagnose conditions ranging from diabetes to urinary tract infections has proven especially difficult: When the Qualcomm prizes were awarded last year, no team had met all 13...Read full article

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