New York, March 14 (IANS) Researchers have developed a highly sensitive disposable biosensor that can detect sub-populations' white blood cells that are key to diagnosis of HIV/AIDS.
The new biosensor could not only make HIV diagnosis possible in places that lack testing facilities but also bring down the cost of the diagnosis, according to the researchers.
"There are 34 million people infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide, many in places that lack testing facilities," explained one of the researchers Rashid Bashir, professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US.
"An important diagnostic biomarker for HIV/AIDS is the absolute count of the CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes (white blood cells) in the whole blood. The current diagnostic tool - a flow cytometre
