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...membered team from Harvard and MIT recently won both Harvard Business School’s and MIT’s business plan competitions for their non-profit enterprise Diagnostics-For-All, which aims to improve global health care by using the paper technology as affordable yet accurate diagnostic devices...
...overall goal is to produce a device that essentially doesn’t cost anything to make,” said Andres W. Martinez, a graduate student at Harvard and one of the developers of the paper technology. “It could be used to test a range of different diseases, and we plan to focus on diseases that effect people in developing countries...
...Paper was an ideal medium because it is cheap, lightweight, and widely available, Martinez said. He and his colleagues in the Whitesides lab have patterned the paper into a “microfluidic device” with channels that allow the fluid to be separated into different compartments where independent assays can take place...
Eventually, the fluid will be a drop of a patient’s blood, sweat, or urine, which will then be separated into compartments on the paper that will change color to indicate the presence of certain enzymes or proteins that in turn could indicate certain diseases...
...safe to say that it’s a very well-orchestrated and very complex project,” says Daron J. Manoogian, the Harvard Art Museums’ spokesman. The Fogg has over 260,000 works in its collection, though this number includes every ancient coin and paper drawing. Still, it’s easy to understand why the sheer number of objects to be moved presents a logistical challenge to the renovators. Some of the artwork requires many layers of special packaging to ensure their safety during the move, and most are placed in crates before they...