New Ring Can Diagnose Sexually Transmitted Diseases in a Single Test MedDeviceOnline.com
go to original August 28, 2015

A ring with the ability to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis was designed by the Mexican Ernesto Rodríguez Leal.

The portable medical device called Hoope is a ring that is placed in the thumb, contains a disposable cartridge with a retractable needle for single use and sends the data to a smartphone in less than a minute.

"Every year more than 500 million people around the world contract one of these four STDs, 50 percent of them have between 15 and 23 years of age. The problem is that 75 percent of them do not present early symptoms, therefore the need for an early detection strategy," said the mechanical engineer.

The project is developed in a Mexican startup at Silicon Valley. "There I met Damel Mektepbayeva, biotechnologist from Kazakhstan, and Irina Rymshina, Russian finance expert, the three of us decided to create Hoope" Rodriguez Leal explained.

He arrived to Silicon Valley through the Singularity University program consisting of a three-month stay at NASA, which brings together 80 people from around the world. "In this program I learned the tools needed to conceptualize social impact projects and transform the idea from the lab to an end product."

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