How Can Phones and Drones Help Stop a Cancer Causing Parasite?

By William McCarthy, Cristina Salas, Caroline Crain, Maya Grayck, Jon Beaubrun, Rakesh Kathiresan, Jacob Bartz, Olubukola Adelakun, Phillip Koether, Nehali Shah, Morgan Jibowu, PhD, MPH, Thomas Copeland, Daniel Amao, Simon Birk, Hope T. Leng, and Vaibhav Shokeen
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Securing Parasitic Egg Samples in San Francisco
June 14, 2025
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Origami Microscope (Foldscope) Can Detect Parasite Eggs...
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Houston Global Health Collaborative Grant: $1800 awarded...
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Prototype Filtration Results & Reproducibility Workflow...
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Successful Parasitic Egg Filtering with Prototype:...
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7% Funded & Ideas Are Flowing! Kids Educational Booklet...
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Project Launch & Summary: Can a $2.50 microscope help...
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Reusable Urine Filter/ Microfluidic Trap Cell: Progress...
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Microfluidic Devices & Fish-eye Lenses for Accessible...
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Protocol: Ethical Review Submission for Ogun State,...
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3D-printed Microfluidic Slide Compatible with Portable...
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Exp 1: Untrained Foldscope users have 79% accuracy, take...
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