SMK Diagnostics is developing a sensor that can detect mosquito-borne diseases more quickly and cheaply than alternative methods.
Purdue University yesterday announced SMK Diagnostics, a spinout that will commercialise a sensor to detect mosquito-borne tropical diseases more quickly and cheaply that current alternatives.
Founded in May 2017, SMK Diagnostics has developed biosensor technology that can detect the presence of Zika, which led to an epidemic in 2015 and 2016 and can cause birth defects if a pregnant woman is infected, and dengue fever, which causes approximately 22,000 deaths annually around the world, according to the US National Institute…
