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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people in Africa annually, and it sickens millions more.
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3 .Medicine can keep the disease in check and save lives.
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4 .But up to half the drugs in Africa may be substandard and up to a third may be counterfeit.
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5 .At the moment, there's no easy way to reliably test a drug in the field.
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6 .That could change if a new technology called PharmaCheck, developed by researchers at Boston University, moves from prototype to reality.
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7 .The pill in question is dissolved in liquid.
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8 .Miniscule amounts of the liquid pass through channels in what's called a microfluidic chip.
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9 .The channels include a molecule that will bond to the real drug.
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10 .That event produces fluorescence that can be measured by a smartphone app,
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11 .which reveals how much of the drug is present and active in the pill.
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12 .The technology was recently awarded one of nine grants by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.
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13 .The research team plans to soon test prototypes in the field in Ghana.
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14 .If PharmaCheck works, regulators and pharmacists could have a simple, inexpensive method to determine whether a drug is effective.
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15 .Which could impede counterfeiters and save thousands of lives.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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