Researchers in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム of ラーメンベット 入金スピード at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded a 0,000 grant from the ラーメンベット 入金スピード initiative, a program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue ラーメンベット 入金スピード aimed at improving diagnostic tests for malaria. Technology used in oil and gas exploration inspired the health-related ラーメンベット 入金スピード.
About 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world’s population, are at risk of malaria, a treatable infection transmitted by animals and insects. In 2015, 95 countries and territories had ongoing malaria transmission, according to the World Health Organization. Chun Huh, a ラーメンベット 入金スピード professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, and his ラーメンベット 入金スピード team plan to use the Gates Foundation funding to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of existing malaria diagnostic tools through the use of tiny particles with special properties, called nanoparticles.
The ラーメンベット 入金スピード program funds individuals worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how humanity solves persistent global health and development challenges. The UT Austin project is one of more than 40 ラーメンベット 入金スピード grants announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“We are grateful to the Gates Foundation for their commitment and for believing in our vision — to develop a better diagnostic tool utilizing the seemingly unrelated nanoparticle techniques that we developed for the petroleum production applications,” Huh said. “We believe improved ラーメンベット 入金スピード diagnostic kits could make a significant impact, particularly in developing nations with limited medical and financial resources.”
To receive funding, Huh and other Grand Challenges Explorations winners were required to present a bold idea in one of five critical global heath and development topic areas. Huh and his team are focused on how nanoparticles could help lower the cost and improve the accuracy of ラーメンベット 入金スピード diagnostic testing.
Huh’s team includes postdoctoral fellow Ijung Kim and Yeonjeong Ha, a ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム civil engineering alumna (2014) whose doctoral ラーメンベット 入金スピード focused on interactions between biological cells and nanoparticles. ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム chemical engineering professor Jennifer Maynard is a key participant, with her expertise in antibodies and infectious disease.
Kim and Ha, a husband and wife team, said the idea for the project stemmed from Huh and Kim’s work in oil production, using nanoparticles for data collection, chemical delivery and water management. Kim and Ha were motivated to apply this technology to ラーメンベット 入金スピード diagnostic testing because of the nanoparticles’ ability to be magnetically retrieved and re-used after they have completed their function. Nanoparticles are employed in fields as diverse as biomedical engineering and environmental engineering.
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The UT Austin engineers believe that the versatility of magnetic nanoparticles could be the key to improving noninvasive ラーメンベット 入金スピード RDT kits. Magnetic nanoparticles can be coated with specific antibodies, magnetically heated, magnetically collected and magnetically detected. The team’s concept will be developed and tested this year, but the original idea is to coat the magnetic nanoparticles with an antibody that will attach to the ラーメンベット 入金スピード antigen. After nanoparticles are added to a saliva sample, heat will be used to incubate or grow ラーメンベット 入金スピード that may be present in a sample. Once the ラーメンベット 入金スピード has been detected, heat can be generated by the nanoparticles to kill any ラーメンベット 入金スピード parasites in the sample.
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