San Francisco-Based Startup Vivoo Wants to Make Urinalysis as Easy as a Pregnancy Test

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San Francisco-based startup Vivoo has developed an innovative wellness assistant right on your phone that can give you personalized nutrition advice based on a urinalysis strip as simple to use as a home pregnancy test.

Simply pee on the stick on several exposed strips that will then test for a number of wellness and healthcare factors. Depending on the contents of your urine, the color of the strips will change, which is where your phone comes in.

Using the Vivoo app on your phone, simply take a picture of the strip after a few minutes to give the results have had enough time to develop and based on the color of the test strips, the app will tell you whether you are drinking enough water, whether you are at risk for developing a urinary tract infection, as well as kidney and liver function among other factors.

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This Startup Wants to Make Urinalysis as Easy as a Pregnancy Test

Vivoo has created a new subscription-based urinalysis app that can determine everything from whether you're drinking enough water to risk factors for a urinary tract infection, all right from your phone (and no, you don't have to pee on your phone).

Medical Technology: Rapid Diagnostics Device Developed Using Figure 4 Standalone | 3D Systems

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A team of researchers at Imperial College London, led by Dr. Pantelis Georgiou, is tackling this problem head-on with a project called Lacewing for pathogen detection. Offering results within 20 minutes from a smartphone app synced to a cloud server, Lacewing makes disease testing portable, including SARD-CoV-2-RNA, and automates the tracking of disease progression through geotagging.

It is a sophisticated “lab-on-a-chip” platform that promises to fill the access- and information-gaps in the world of diagnostics by combining molecular biology and state-of-the-art technology. Whereas other diagnostics technology requires large and expensive optical equipment, the electrical sensing method and small size of Lacewing is a true evolution in approach.

The Lacewing platform is a molecular diagnostic test that works by identifying the DNA or RNA of a pathogen within a patient sample. This type of test makes it possible to determine not only if someone is infected with a certain disease (dengue, malaria, tuberculosis, COVID-19, etc.), but to what degree, which provides more insight into the severity of the symptoms.

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Rapid Diagnostics Device Developed Using Figure 4 Standalone | 3D Systems

The Lacewing project out of Imperial College London is a lab-on-a-chip platform for diagnosing and tracking diseases, with key components 3D printed using 3D Systems' Figure 4 and biocompatible-capable materials.