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eBioPhy: Bringing rapid and real-time diagnosis to remote locations
Objectives
The project eBioPhy sought to provide a low-cost and easy-to-deploy platform to detect plasmodium species causing malaria, by combining molecular and biophysical concepts with engineering tools to detect pathogens in biological samples.
A lack of early diagnosis of pathogens is a major component inflating the rates of death in tropical countries, with malaria being recognized as the most devastating parasitic infection. eBioPhy (Electronic Biophysics) is a diagnostic platform that uses biochemical and biophysical principles, in combination with data and communication tools, to probe the presence of pathogens in biological samples. The novelty of this project is the multidisciplinary integration of fluorescence-based detection of pathogens, low-cost optical devices and usage of widely available smart phones to collect and analyze data. On the horizon is the use for many other pathogens, opening the door to widespread scaling.
eBioPhy: Bringing rapid and real-time diagnosis to remote locations
Oct 2014 — Jul 2016
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