Lab on a chip device will help understand malaria better

A University of British Columbia researcher has come out with a simple and accurate device to study malaria – a disease that is increasingly resistant to drugs.

Spread by mosquitoes, malaria is caused by a tiny parasite that infects human red blood cells.

The Animal Blood that Saves Lives

Its blood is blue and comes from a creature more ancient and resilient than dinosaurs – and even medicine itself has claimed this animal to be “a new life-saving tool”.  Not only serving great purposes towards its natural habitat, but now saving countless human lives is the remarkable and bizarre horseshoe crab.