POSTS TAGGED AS malaria

Detecting de Novo Mutations

Human evolution
“A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom [MORE]

Immortalized Red Blood Cells

Malaria in peripheral blood
Immortalized red blood cells seems like a misnomer.  Those cells have no nucleus.  But researchers at the [MORE]

Artificial Liver for Testing RNAi-Based Drugs

MIT Liver model
In making a living hepatic device, MIT researchers were able to mimic a human liver’s microenvironment.  They then [MORE]

Making Disease Sensors from Stacked Antibodies

MIT Antibody Sensor
This piece reports: “In the research by MIT chemical engineers, molecular self-assembly was used to build sensors containing [MORE]

Hand-Held Blood Analyzer for Malaria

NanoMal Blood Analysis Unit for Malaria
Foreseen almost as a micro pathology lab in the space of an over-the-counter [MORE]

Exploring “Patient Discovery”

The theme of last year’s Medical Automation Conference was “patient discovery”-i.e. the idea that identifying molecular pathways in individuals’ [MORE]

“Flying Vaccinators”

Mosquito
Why might the world benefit from a healthy mosquito?  Professor Shigeto Yoshida, at Jichi Medical University (Tochigi, Japan) believes [MORE]