{"id":2237,"date":"2011-12-14T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:00:53","slug":"professor-buddy-ratners-latest-device-delivers-nutrition-diagnosis-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/professor-buddy-ratners-latest-device-delivers-nutrition-diagnosis-in-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Buddy Ratner's Latest Device Delivers Nutrition Diagnosis in Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image Courtesy Mary Levin<\/p><\/div>UW Bioengineering Professor Buddy Ratner<\/a> believes his lab\u2019s latest device could be a powerful tool, capable of addressing health and child development issues by delivering a blood test in minutes to some of the most remote parts of the globe.<\/p>\n

While it looks like something you might use to light a barbecue, the Plasma Pencil Atmospheric Mass Spectrometer (PPAMS) is really a sophisticated tool that rapidly measures micronutrients \u2013 zinc, iron, folate, vitamin A and iodine. The results can then be displayed on a mobile phone or tablet computer within minutes, instead of the 24 hours typically required.<\/p>\n

Ratner, who led the team that invented this new tool, says the University of Washington is currently pursuing a patent on the PPAMS device.<\/p>\n

Buddy Ratner is a professor and the Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization. He is also a 2011 UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow<\/a>. Fellows are recognized based on their achievements in translating research into products and therapies, initiating groundbreaking programs for translation, or for supporting collaboration with industry.<\/p>\n

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Read more about Buddy Ratner\u2019s Plasma Pencil on UW Today<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about NIH\u2019s Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development Program<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch a video segment from Q13 Fox News on Professor Ratner\u2019s Device<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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