TB Detector

Tuberculosis sufferers account for some two billion people worldwide. The disease’s spread is a public health concern of the highest order, and typically, a highly inaccurate skin test, a chest X-ray, or a TB-culture test that can take six weeks for results, have been the screening methods.  Now researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University have developed a prototype “TB detector” that is hand-held and gives an accurate reading in a half hour.  The device relies on magnetic-nanoparticles and a reader that uses principles of MRI.     MORE   

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