The Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH), a non-profit drug development organization, announced today that its development of an alternative source of artemisinin using pioneering synthetic biology technology (semisynthetic artemisinin (ART) project) has successfully entered the production and distribution phase. The semisynthetic version of artemisinin is targeted to be an affordable, … [Read more...]
Blood Analysis Chip May Revolutionize Disease Detection
Reporter Kara Tsuboi interviews researchers at the University of California, Berkeley who are working on a new blood-analysis chip or Self-powered Integrated Microfluidic Blood Analysis System (SIMBAS), that can potentially detect hundreds of diseases at once in a matter of minutes. Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee and post-doctoral researcher Ivan Dimov are at the end of the first phase of … [Read more...]
Canadian Researchers Develop Inexpensive Malaria Treatment
Scientists in Saskatoon, Canada have developed a malaria treatment that will help fight malaria, which kills about one million people each year. The new developments which will provide an affordable, reliable, and stable treatment for malaria and is likely to save millions of lives, especially those of women and children in Africa. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and … [Read more...]