"The scientists plan to develop a home test," it says. While the article itself is about par for the Daily Mail, this is a great research area that's being com

"The scientists plan to develop a home test," it says. While the article itself is about par for the Daily Mail, this is a great research area that's being commercialized now. A team at Stanford is doing something similar for various cancers: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/02/stanford.blood.scanner.detects.even.faint.indicators.cancer http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/02/stanford.blood.s... and a lab at my school is doing the same thing for stomach cancer in particular. The prof I talked to said it would become a product in about 2 years. This technique of identifying a disease by its protein/RNA profile is easy to get lost in, but powerful and broadly applicable. A test for the common cold (which bug is that, exactly?), developed on a sample of 38 yacht racers, is a bit dubious, though.