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New tool to diagnose Malaria - IISc Scientists
October 31 , 2017
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- Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, (IISc) have developed a new diagnostic tool for early detection of malaria.
- Currently, visual microscopic identification of the malarial parasite Plasmodium inside red blood cells (RBCs) is used, but the new tool can detect the disease even in RBCs that do not themselves host the parasite but lie near the infected ones. RBCs that lie close to the infected ones appear rigid much like the affected ones and this helps in easy diagnosis.
- The Brownian motion (random movement of particles) of the normal RBC was found to be different from the infected ones.
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