New way to diagnose malaria by detecting parasite's waste in infected blood cells
Monday, September 1, 2014 - 00:30
in Biology & Nature
A technique that can detect malarial parasite's waste in infected blood cells has been developed by researchers. "There is real potential to make this into a field-deployable system, especially since you don't need any kind of labels or dye. It's based on a naturally occurring biomarker that does not require any biochemical processing of samples" says one of the senior authors of a paper.