Student Experience Be a part of the ongoing revolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) health diagnostics! Students in this stream will design and develop inexpensive and easy-to-use medical and environmental diagnostic tests intended for use at home. This democratization of diagnosis will save time and money and help combat the growing cost of health care. This stream is open to developing diagnostics utilizing any tools available including, but not limited to, biochemical tests, electronics, robotics, and mining large data sets including social networks. Notes from previous DIY researchers: Dear prospective researchers, The student researchers in DIY Diagnostics all have a little bit to say as to why you should join DIY Diagnostics. Please read the following blog posts about their experiences, their research, and what they think makes such a great lab! Sincerely, DIY Diagnostics Featured Posts Greetings fellow UT schoolmates, Firstly, I hope you are adjusting well to the Forty Acres, after all, the campus is freaking HUGE and there are always SO many people. Not only that, but congrats on being admitted to the FRI program here at UT as well! FRI provides undergraduates with incredible opportunities and resources, which are now… For almost two years now the DIY Diagnostics Research Stream has been monitoring Waller Creek along campus in the lookout for bacterial hotspots and attempting to identify the sources of these. I had the opportunity of joining the DIY Diagnostics Stream in 2014 and have been one of the Waller Creek investigators since then… However, the real goal in our minds to find a sample population of Parkinson’s patients and allow those individuals to log using the program so we can analyze their typing behavior. By comparing these results to a control group of patients who don’t have Parkinson’s, we will assess whether keyboarding becomes a telling health diagnostic… The best thing that I had encountered during this lab was being able to work along with my mentors during the summer and being actually useful to them. It was so funny when Sarah accidently transferred the mEI plate instead of the mTEC plate into the 44.5 degree water bath and I was basically hyperventilating… Posts by Year 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
