Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a prototype malaria test printed on a disposable Mylar card that could easily slip into your wallet and still work when you took it out, even ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel method for malaria testing could achieve large-scale screening and cost-effectiveness that is vital to ...

In view of the sharp rise in treatment costs of malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that there must be a hard diagnosis before the disease is treated. The WHO is deploying rapid tests, a ...

The new test looks for the presence (or absence) of the malaria parasite in the blood. The test comes from a research project called “NanoFRET”, where the aim is come up with very sensitive and robust ...

A 25-minute do-it-yourself Urine Malaria Test (UMT) kit has been unveiled in Lagos by Fyodor Biotechnologies Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of Fyodor Biotechnologies Corps, United States (US). The kit, ...

Malaria is a serious concern in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. For a while, it was difficult to diagnose the disease with traditional methods like microscopy in remote areas. In ...

A multicentre study conducted by researchers from West Africa and the UK evaluated a portable molecular malaria test that can detect asymptomatic and submicroscopic infections in under 45 minutes, ...

A breathalyzer test for malaria is in the works from scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. According to the research, presented this week at the American Society of Tropical Medicine ...