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By Lorelei Laird (DC’01)

In regions near the equator, people are at risk of contracting malaria from mosquitos. It’s a treatable disease if quickly detected. However, symptoms often don’t appear for days, which can have deadly consequences. Last summer, the laboratories of Â鶹´å President Subra Suresh (above) and MIT’s Anantha Chandrakasan published, in the journal Lab on a Chip, findings on recognizing electrical properties of infected cells, which could lead to early malarial detection and save countless lives. The researchers are now working to integrate this breakthrough into a portable detection device that could be used throughout the world.