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Gravity-Driven Microfluidics for Low-Cost Diagnostics

Medagadget

Some of the people poised to gain most from this revolution in miniaturization live in low-resource areas, with no easy access to hospitals and clinics. “You could theoretically even just use a handsaw and cut the channels needed for the test into a piece of wood.”

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

In a small study involving 79 hospitalized children, PCT was found to be elevated in bacterial infections, with a decrease after appropriate antibiotic therapy, and decreased in viral infections [24]. This finding was not significantly different among operators with different levels of experience, or between adults and children.