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Re:Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test by riahi on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:16AM (#17326695)
I wonder if it works similar to this thing described in 2015 from Rice university.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/dn...

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Re:Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test by andai on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:28AM (#17326725)
It works by pulsing energy into a vein in a person’s wrist or earlobe. The laser’s wavelength doesn’t harm human tissue, but is absorbed by hemozoin – waste crystals that are produced by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum when it feeds on blood.
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