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Microneedle plaster for quick, blood-free malaria tests – AlKhaleej Today
Microneedle plaster for quick, blood-free malaria tests
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.2. November 2020Testing for malaria could be as easy as putting on a bandage.
Thats the idea behind a platform developed by engineers at Rice University that introduced a microneedle patch for quick diagnostic tests that dont require blood draws.
The device described in the Nature Journal Microsystems and Nanoengineering relies on protein biomarkers found in skin interstitial fluid, which people generally recognize as fluid in bubbles, but surrounding all cells…
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