Dr Rose Nakasi is pioneering AI-driven disease diagnosis at Makerere University, using machine learning to revolutionise microscopy, enhance accuracy, and improve healthcare efficiency in Uganda.

comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

which is Giemsa stained and examined under oil immersion for the presence of malaria parasites in red blood cells. Thick blood smears concentrate dehemoglobinized red blood cells to improve ...

A mother diagnosed with cervical cancer more than three years after a failure to refer her to specialists when her smear test showed concerning results has called for lessons to be learned from ...

It's a common problem affecting around 10 per cent of smear specimens. It means the sample on the microscope slide was unsuitable for analysis. It can be because: •Insufficient cells were ...

Despite requesting a smear test from her GP, her concerns were dismissed as she was deemed 'too young' for a cervical screening which is only offered to over-25s. It was only in March 2015 ...

There have been many propaganda pawns in Russia’s war on Ukraine – and indeed on the West – but none cuts a more unlikely figure than Józef Pieczka. What makes him more unlikely still is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. Trump and Zelenskyy are meeting to ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular insights into placental malaria. Sneha Khedkar is an Assistant Editor at The ...

“Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded,” she wrote in a since-deleted post, “When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to ...