{"id":10600,"date":"2020-04-17T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:15:49","slug":"anal-contact-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/17\/anal-contact-tracing\/","title":{"rendered":"Anal Contact Tracing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/smart-toilet-recognises-users-anal-21826965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Mirror<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Smart toilet recognises users by their &#8216;anal print&#8217; and can detect early signs of cancer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists say the smart toilet could be useful to individuals who are predisposed to certain conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome, prostate cancer or kidney failure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/tech\/article21827122.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_JS210137044.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>The smart toilet<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Going to the loo may never be the same again thanks to scientists who claim to have invented a device that can be fitted on toilets to detect signs of various diseases in stool and urine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gadget, which fits inside the bowl, uses cameras, test strips and motion sensing technology to analyse the deposits and sends the data to a secure cloud server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"8px\" height=\"8px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers said their so-called &#8220;smart toilet&#8221; technology could be useful to individuals who are genetically predisposed to certain conditions, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/lifestyle\/health\/how-banish-misery-irritable-bowel-7689088\">irritable bowel syndrome<\/a>, prostate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0or kidney failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sanjiv Gambhir, professor and chair of radiology at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/stanford-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stanford University<\/a>\u00a0&#8216;s School of Medicine in the US, and senior author on the study, said: &#8220;Our concept dates back well over 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/smart-toilet-recognises-users-anal-21826965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Mirror<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Mirror Smart toilet recognises users by their &#8216;anal print&#8217; and can detect early signs of cancer Scientists say the smart toilet could be useful to individuals who are predisposed to certain conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome, prostate cancer or kidney failure Going to the loo may never be the same again thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}