{"id":513,"date":"2012-05-09T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/?p=513"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:26:42","slug":"%e2%80%98extractionator%e2%80%99-could-bring-cheap-and-effective-malaria-diagnostics-to-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/2012\/05\/%e2%80%98extractionator%e2%80%99-could-bring-cheap-and-effective-malaria-diagnostics-to-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extractionator\u2019 could bring cheap and effective malaria diagnostics to millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December a trio of Vanderbilt researchers \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/BiomedicalEngineering\/FacultyStaff\/FacultyListing\/RickHaselton.aspx\">Rick Haselton<\/a>, professor of biomedical engineering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/ans\/chemistry\/groups\/wright\/david.htm\">David Wright<\/a>, associate professor of chemistry, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicc.org\/dd\/display.php?person=r.mernaugh\">Ray Mernaugh<\/a>, associate professor of biochemistry \u2014 snagged a $1 million grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation <\/a>to  develop a \u201clow tech, high science\u201d method for collecting and preparing  the patient samples in under-developed areas. Haselton\u2019s students dubbed  the device the \u201cExtractionator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We announced the grant in the story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2011\/12\/extractionator\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018Extractionator\u2019 could bring high-tech medical diagnostics to rural areas.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five months ago, it consisted of little more than a length of plastic  tubing, a large magnet and a handful of small magnetized beads. The  project is described, more or less, in the June issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Discover<\/em><\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2012\/05\/extractionator-update\/\">KEEP READING&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December a trio of Vanderbilt researchers \u2014 Rick Haselton, professor of biomedical engineering, David Wright, associate professor of chemistry, and Ray Mernaugh, associate professor of biochemistry \u2014 snagged a $1 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a \u201clow tech, high science\u201d method for collecting and preparing the patient samples&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,193,12],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-wright","tag-rick-haselton","tag-vinse-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}