Amplino may be the ultimate garage project. Three DIY bio-hackers have created a mobile malaria testing kit they claim can identify different strains of malaria with higher accuracy, and at lower ...

Rapid tests, which are easy to deploy and require minimal equipment, provide an important diagnostic tool in the ongoing effort against malaria, which affects more than 250 million people around the ...

John Lewandowski, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, created a medical device that can detect malaria in five seconds from a drop of blood. The battery-operated Rapid Assessment of ...

Testing for malaria infection typically involves a blood draw, which isn't always safe or feasible in resource-poor nations hit hardest by the disease Now, a new technology called Cytophone uses a ...

New Haven, Conn. — Almost half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current ...

Almost half of the world's population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current methods to detect this ...

A multicentre study conducted by researchers from West Africa and the UK evaluated a portable molecular malaria test that can detect asymptomatic and submicroscopic infections in under 45 minutes, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in asymptomatic people in Ghana – a diagnostic advance that could ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The mystery flu-like ...