Sticky paper offers cheap, easy solution for paper-based diagnostics

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

(Phys.org)—A current focus in global health research is to make medical tests that are not just cheap, but virtually free. One such strategy is to start with paper – one of humanity's oldest technologies – and build a device like a home-based pregnancy test that might work for malaria, diabetes or other diseases.

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