Trekkies out there will love this one. Meet the Massachusetts doctor whose medical device invention will sound quite familiar to fans of the beloved sci-fi series. It's now being tested by NASA on the International Space Station.
Science fiction often transports people into new worlds full of gadgets and high-tech solutions to our everyday terrestrial problems. These solutions can often feel so futuristic and far away that it's difficult to imagine them becoming real.
Dr. Eugene Chan has spent the last decade bringing a piece of technology largely seen as a work of science fiction to life. As founder and CEO of rHEALTH in Bedford, Mass., Chan created a real-life version of the"tricorder," a fictionalized medical device depicted aboard the original Star Trek series' Starfleet USS Enterprise.to talk about his award-winning invention, officially called the rHEALTH ONE, which analyzes hundreds of diseases with just one drop of blood.
On how an interaction with a patient treated with frequent blood draws sparked his idea for his invention:
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