Jing Li, a scientist at NASA Ames, has constructed a remarkable piece of nanosensor technology. This innovative small chip that attaches to your cell phone could end self-diagnosis using WebMD and trigger the start of empowering everyday consumers to diagnose disease.

The nanosensor gauges 32 bars in the chip, allowing users to read toxin levels.

This is just another example of how technology is changing business as we know it. Today, with Li’s nanosensor technology, mankind can enable tech chips to respond to several chemicals, differentiate between them and allow you to monitor their relative levels.

Li’s discovery has the chance to greatly impact disease diagnoses, which is ground breaking.

But how does Li’s innovation help medicine? Specifically, the nanosensors can aid those with diseases linked to certain toxin levels, like lung cancer and diabetes, just by breathing on it.

Studies have show that lung cancer patients have higher amounts of nitrous oxide in their body.

Also, diabetics have been screened with levels of acetone. Having these chemical correlations with particular diseases, will allow consumers to simply breathe on the sensor and have their health read.

Jing Li’s invention will hopefully prompt more studies of diseases and the correlating chemicals in the body.

This postage stamp size chip will change the lives of many. Thank you NASA for adding another invention that everyday people can use on the list!

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