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Origami-Inspired Paper Sensor Could Test for Malaria and HIV for Under a Dime

Posted March 14, 2012 11:41 AM

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Chemists have designed a new disease sensor that can be printed on an office printer, and take less than a minute to assemble.

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03/14/2012 2:30 PM

Now if you could just cure these diseases as easily and cheaply...

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03/15/2012 9:10 AM

How appropriate is this announcement date?

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03/15/2012 11:12 AM

I followed a link in the "original" article to the JACS site where I found this interesting paper titled,

"Directional Synthesis and Assembly of Bimetallic Nanosnowmen with DNA"

Nanosnowmen are just so cool!

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