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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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