The Javelin anti-tank missile system is a killer weapon that seeks out and destroys armored vehicles, but it has now been successfully used to hone in on the malaria parasite. The system uses a Focal Plane Array (FPA), a heat seeking Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy detector that was specifically developed to target tanks. By combining this device with a synchrotron light source and an infrared microscope, Australian researchers from Monash University and University of Melbourne have been able to spot malaria in a single red blood cell even during the parasite’s early stages of development.
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