Vapor nanobubbles rapidly detect malaria through the skin

Rice University researchers have developed a noninvasive technology that accurately detects low levels of malaria infection through the skin in seconds with a laser scanner. The “vapor nanobubble” technology requires no dyes or diagnostic chemicals, and there is no need to draw blood.
A preclinical study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("Hemozoin-generated vapor nanobubbles for transdermal reagent- and needle-free detection of malaria") shows that Rice’s technology detected even a single malaria-infected cell among a million normal cells with zero false-positive readings.

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Vapor nanobubbles rapidly detect malaria through the skin

 

















Source: Nano werk
Image credits: E. Lukianova-Hleb/Rice University

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