When two or more people from the world of medical technology meet, talk inevitably turns to the ongoing, yet elusive, search for an industry-standard, multidisciplinary diagnostic device: the fabled ...

Back in 2013, Qualcomm's Tricorder Xprize competition managed to go where no medtech competition had gone before by sparking a funding war between two Starship Enterprise captains. The Qualcomm ...

The relationship between science and science fiction is being explored at a groundbreaking new interactive exhibition at the Science Museum. “Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination” ...

Today the Science Museum opened its most ambitious exhibition yet: Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, placing visitors at the heart of an interactive science fiction story which is ...

We've just had the Dexter: New Blood ending, with some gut-wrenching twists for longtime viewers of the TV series. Michael C Hall, who plays serial killer Dexter Morgan, has reflected on the closure ...

The main winner, known as DxtER and created by US firm Basil Leaf Technologies, is actually an iPad app with artificial intelligence. It uses a number of non-invasive sensors that can be attached to ...

Its vision of romantic encounters with aliens and plagues of tribbles may not have come to pass just yet, but Star Trek has proved surprisingly accurate in predicting the future in other ways. When it ...

Alumnus Basil Harris, MD, PhD, endured the crucible of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition, won it in 2017 through his self-funded, family-based company, and visited Drexel to tell a packed ...

After Basil Leaf Technologies won the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize in 2017, founder Dr. Basil Harris needed help figuring out how to bring this almost-all-in-one diagnostic tool to market. Basil Leaf’s ...

IRELAND’S hospital overcrowding could be cured by a ‘doctor in a a box’ device that can diagnose illnesses using DIY tests. The DxtER was created by a US team inspired by a similar tool from the TV ...

Basil Leaf Technologies of Paoli is seeking FDA approval to market its DxtER, a medical device that functions like the Tricorder from Star Trek in diagnosing illnesses, writes Michael Belfiore for ...