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Intellectual Ventures’s Global Good division has teamed up with General Electric to create a new test for malaria that’s designed to spot even the parasites that cause the disease, even in cases that would otherwise be missed by traditional testing.
It’s important work, since someone can be a host to malaria-causing parasites for months before showing symptoms, all the while transmitting those parasites to mosquitoes that then carry it to other hosts. By detecting the parasites early, health workers can provide treatment to affected people, and hopefully eradicate the disease altogether in the future.
The test is powered by work that GE Global Research did on a Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFA) test for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a “state-of-the-art reader that will detect nanoparticles tagged to key bio-markers for the detection of malaria” developed by Global Good.
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