Automatic TB Diagnostic Technology To aid with tuberculosis diagnostics, Guardian Technologies, a company that originally worked with airport X-ray scanners, "has developed a system that automatically scans microscope slides for the [TB] bacillus," the New York Times reports. "The company's software algorithms can spot distinctive shapes, colors and densities that untrained eyes may miss." The original technology fit a standard microscope to a digital camera and it is now making an automated version that can hold 50 slides...

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