A lab in every pocket

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3066, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In bed, at dinner, on people's way to work. Their smartphones are always with them, their sensors capturing data about their lives. That data is priceless to firms like Google and their customers, advertisers. But medical researchers are getting in on the act too. Their phones are turning into tools for doing research in unprecedented detail and scale. A team from Seattle-based non-profit Sage Bionetworks, for instance, is gathering data from thousands of people with Parkinson's via an app called mPower. They built the app using Apple's ResearchKit software, which lets individuals opt in to studies through their iPhon