Globally, vitamin A deficiency impacts an estimated 250 million preschool-age children, yet tools to enable early diagnosis are often not available in low resource settings. Cornell engineers and researchers recently developed a low-cost rapid test to measure inflammation and iron and vitamin A deficiencies at point of care, with a test duration of 15 minutes. The team’s work was published in December in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cornell Chronicle, December, 2017.