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Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute
Sticky paper offers cheap, easy solution for paper-based diagnostics

October 2, 2012

Global health researchers, including MolES faculty member Dan Ratner, are working on cheap systems like a home-based pregnancy test that might work for malaria, diabetes or other diseases. A new chemical technique makes medically interesting molecules stick to regular paper "” a possible route to building such paper-based diagnostics from paper you could buy at an office-supply store. [...]

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