NEW YORK (360Dx) — Researchers in Scotland are using the art of paper folding as an inspiration to better detect malaria.
This week, University of Glasgow researchers initiated a first-in-human clinical study to validate a mobile phone-based, origami-inspired microfluidic test using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) to detect the DNA from malarial and parasitic flatworms called schistosomes in 220 children in Uganda.
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