Rapid and quantitative molecular diagnostics in the field, at home, and at remote clinics is essential for evidence-based disease management, control, and prevention. Conventional molecular diagnostics requires extensive sample preparation, relatively sophisticated instruments, and trained personnel, restricting its use to centralized laboratories. To overcome these limitations, we designed a simple, inexpensive, hand-held, smartphone-based mobile detection platform, dubbed "smart-connected cup" (SCC), for rapid, connected, and quantitative molecular diagnostics. Our platform combines bioluminescent assay in real-time and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (BART-LAMP) technology with smartphone-based detection, eliminating the need for an excitation source and optical filters that are essential in fluorescent-based detection. The incubation heating for the isothermal amplification is provided, electricity-free, with an exothermic chemical reaction, and incubation temperature is regulated with a phase change material. A custom Android App was developed for bioluminescent signal monitoring and analysis, target quantification, data sharing, and spatiotemporal mapping of disease. SCC's utility is demonstrated by quantitative detection of Zika virus (ZIKV) in urine and saliva and HIV in blood within 45 min. We demonstrate SCC's connectivity for disease spatiotemporal mapping with a custom-designed website. Such a smart- and connected-diagnostic system does not require any lab facilities and is suitable for use at home, in the field, in the clinic, and particularly in resource-limited settings in the context of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).
Smartphone-Based Mobile Detection Platform for Molecular Diagnostics and Spatiotemporal Disease Mapping
Creators
Jinzhao Song - University of Pennsylvania
Vikram Pandian - University of Pennsylvania
Michael G. Mauk - Univ Penn, Dept Mech Engn & Appl Mech, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Haim H. Bau - University of Pennsylvania
Sara Cherry - University of Pennsylvania
Laurence C. Tisi - European Bioinformatics Institute
Changchun Liu - University of Pennsylvania
Publication Details
Analytical chemistry (Washington), v 90(7), pp 4823-4831
Publisher
American Chemical Society; Washington, DC
Number of pages
9
Grant note
R21DE026700 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
R01EB023607 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering (NIBIB)
R21TW010625 / FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC)
R01CA214072; R01EB023607; R21DE026700; 1R21AI128059-A1; R21TW010625 / NIH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA
R01CA214072 / NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)
R21AI128059 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
AID-OAA-A-11-00012 / NAS
Resource Type
Journal article
Language
English
Academic Unit
Engineering Technology
Web of Science ID
WOS:000429385800080
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85045005776
Other Identifier
991020623910904721
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