Fed up with sitting in the doctor's surgery among all those sneezy patients, waiting for the results of a health check? With the latest technology, you could one day perform bioassays on your home compact-disc player.
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Erickson, J., Ligler, F. Home diagnostics to music. Nature 456, 178–179 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456178a
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