Disease Detector
What are your thoughts on diagnosing disease before you are ill?
Doc in the Box is a device that tracks an individuals protein levels to monitor changes that imply early stage illness or disease before symptoms emerge.
BioMarker Detector created Doc in a Box with the ability to track a person’s health status on a day-to-day basis from the comfort of their home. Doc in a Box is able to detect and record the health level of an individual by examining multiple proteins that are present in their blood, which are collected through a nearly-invisible needle causing no detectable pain. The proteins present in the blood will fluctuate, either up or down, as the body changes. These changes can be due to many different naturally occurring events such as puberty, pregnancy, or menopause, along with more unfortunate changes such as getting cancer, flu, or Alzheimer’s disease. Doc in a Box is able to measure the amounts of specific proteins, or biomarkers, which are correlated to particular diseases, infections, or changes in the human body. These biomarkers are measured and recorded over time as health markers and tracked to develop a particular pattern specific for each individual called a biosignature. When there is a change in the body, there is an immediate change in the biomarkers outside the range of the biosigniture and detected by Doc in a Box.
Since the Doc in a Box is detecting markers on the molecular level, users will be informed of a cold or flu before a sore throat or cough ever occur. With the ability of Doc in the Box to detect diseases pre-symptomatically, people will be able to get treatment before they feel the illness and far before it is too late to treat the disease. For cancer patients, there will be biological implications of cancer before a tumor develops and before the cancer has time to spread. For Alzheimer’s patients, early detection of biomarker changes will enable more effective treatment options, possibly before any memory loss.
