Lab-on-a-chip device detects cryptosporidium in as little as 10 minutes

For a healthy individual, an infection of Cryptosporidium parvum may mean nothing more than a few days of bad diarrhea. For someone with a compromised immune system, it can mean death, following an excruciating, protracted bout of watery diarrhea. Recently, researchers at Fudan University's Institute of Biomedical Sciences in Shanghai developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can rapidly diagnose cryptosporidium infections from just a finger prick—potentially bringing point-of-care diagnosis to at-risk areas in rural China in order to improve treatment outcomes.

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