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Smart Home: What the toilet can reveal about our health

Every time we visit the toilet, we deliver medically valuable samples: urine and stool can be used to identify numerous diseases. But »smart toilets«, which could automatically carry out tests on our legacies, are expensive and more art than everyday objects. A team led by radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir from the Stanford University School of Medicine wants to change that. The working group developed software and hardware components with which ordinary toilets can be upgraded. In the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers explain how it could work to diagnose irritable bowel syndrome or a urinary tract infection.

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