WASHINGTON (AP) — Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites — by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight ...
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. App State researchers received $2.3M to commercialize an AI-driven microscope. The microscope automates fecal egg counting to ...
An international team of researchers has harnessed the potential of AI-powered technology to detect the presence of malaria parasites in returning travelers. As the World Health Organization advocates ...
Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death. The World Health Organization recommends parasite-based diagnosis before ...
Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with integrated artificial intelligence that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood ...
Chris Woolston is a freelance writer in Billings, Montana. In this picture taken in September, I’m using a confocal microscope at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, one of the Pasteur Network’s ...
The antimalarial drug, artemisinin packs a double whammy -- exploding inside malaria parasites and shutting down the waste disposal system that deals with the damage. Resistance to artemisinin, can be ...
Divya Beri is a postdoctoral researcher at the New York Blood Center. She studies how hosts resist parasite infections, aiming to identify new drug targets.