U. WASHINGTON (US) — A chemical trick turns regular paper into a device similar to a home-based pregnancy test, and it might work for malaria, diabetes, or other diseases.
“We wanted to go for the simplest, cheapest starting material, and give it more capability,” says Daniel Ratner, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington who developed a way to make the same paper available in office supply stores sticky to medically interesting molecules.