Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
— Albert Einstein
May 13, 2013
Plasmodium is a genus of the Apicomplexan parasite, which was described in 1885 by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli and is known to cause malaria. There are 200 known species of Plasmodium, of which at least 11 species infect humans, while others infect other animals including reptiles, birds, rodents, and monkeys. The Plasmodium parasite has [...]
May 6, 2013
Ben Wilson, our Optical Tuberculosis Diagnosis Project Lead, recently presented at the Optics in the Life Sciences conference on the Big Island of Hawaii. The conference brought together optics experts from around the world whose work is helping to advance biological and medical research through the use of optical technologies. Ben’s presentation focused on our [...]
April 29, 2013
Water has lots of odd properties. Normally, we think of fluids as being less dense when they get warmer. Hot air balloon rides, for example, would be much less exciting if warmer things tended to sink. However, one of the weirder properties of water is that unlike most liquids, its density doesn’t always decrease with [...]
April 22, 2013
The EMOD program launched its second release of their malaria modeling software last week, just before convening its first annual EMOD Modeling Malaria Symposium. The first version of their software launched in September 2012 and focused on modeling the spread of malaria and the potential impacts of health policies and intervention strategies. The EMOD v1.5 [...]
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