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  • DNA nanomachine detects HIV antibodies in minutes, not hours

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    10.08.2015

    Current methods for detecting the antibodies that indicate HIV infection are agonizingly slow and cumbersome. However a new DNA nanomachine developed by an international team of researchers (and funded, in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) could shorten the process to a matter of minutes.