Diagnosing malaria with a cell phone
N
ew technology that transforms
a cell phone into a mobile
polarized microscope can diagnose
malaria in a Rwandan village with
the same level of accuracy as a hitech lab in a major Western city,
according to Texas A&M University
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November 2015
biomedical engineers developing
the device.
"The way they diagnose malaria
now is with a microscope but it is
with a big benc h top microscope
that is relatively complicated to