A research team at Fort Collins based-Colorado State University has created an at-home testing device that can screen for heart failure.
The team will present its device and research findings at the American Chemical Society's fall meeting, according to an Aug. 19 news release from the organization.
The device is called an electrochemical capillary-driven immunoassay and screens for biomarker proteins previously correlated with heart failure, Galectin-3 and S100A7, from a drop of saliva.
In collaboration with Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, researchers are set to test the device in a human trial at the university, the release said.