Also covered in the NYT about a year ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/health/new-rapid-malaria-test-uses-magnets-and-a-laser.html http://www.nytimes.com/2

Also covered in the NYT about a year ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/health/new-rapid-malaria-test-uses-magnets-and-a-laser.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/health/new-rapid-malaria-t... The Gates Foundation has been funding development of a very similar technique by another group since 2010: http://www.malariaworld.org/sites/default/files/mwjournal/article/MWJ2013_4_7.pdf http://www.malariaworld.org/sites/default/files/mwjournal/ar... It appears to be an active and promising area of research as several other groups have published work back to at least 2008: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130312/srep01431/full/srep01431.html http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130312/srep01431/full/srep01... (2013) http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/207 http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/207 (2010) http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495(08)70272-8 http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495(08)70272-8 (2008)