Ashok A. Kumar|Jonathan W. Hennek|Barbara S. Smith|Shailendra Kumar|Patrick Beattie|Sidhartha Jain|Jason P. Rolland|Thomas P. Stossel|Catherine Chunda?Liyoka|George M. Whitesides
From the Bench to the Field in Low?Cost Diagnostics: Two Case Studies
Harvard University|Harvard University|Harvard University|Diagnostics For All|Diagnostics For All|Diagnostics For All|Diagnostics For All|Brigham and Women's Hospital|University Teaching Hospital|Harvard University
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