低成本自动驾驶显微镜有望加速感染诊断

Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low- resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics. BY SHELBY BRADFORD, PhD A round the world, diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis con- tinue to plague millions of people, causing severe illness and death. In recent years, scientists developed more effective drugs against many of these infectious dis- eases. However, one of the largest hurdles in curbing disease cases remains the abil- ity to detect them. “Drugs only work in combination with diagnostics because you cannot just take a drug and give it to people without diagnos- tics,” said Manu Prakash, a biologist and engineer at Stanford University. …