MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
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MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
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#2A certain Jesse Pinkman quote comes to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVDDxoKBk4
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#3I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like?
Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And I don't mean merely writing a check to the Anti Malaria Foundation or whatever.)
Re: MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
#4A certain Jesse Pinkman quote comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVDDxoKBk4
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Re: MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
#5I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like? Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And…
> How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem?
Read as much as you can: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=malaria
Re: MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
#6I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like? Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And…
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#7I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like? Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And…
> I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet.
A lot of mechanical engineers in academia are actually working on (or looking to work on) research that has medical applications, because you can get funding from the NIH. Although academics are technically supposed to be "independent," the funding climate ultimately drives research interests.
> What's that thought process like?
Well, presuming that he was already well aware of the ability to use magnets to move minuscule quantities of iron, it starts out with something like this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=human+body+iron
Note that it doesn't have to start out with malaria. In fact, you don't have to know anything about human disease when starting out.
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#9I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like? Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And…
Per the article it sounds like he worked with a malaria expert at the University he attended before going to MIT.
"He founded DDG in Cleveland, where he earned his undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University. Lewandowski’s cofounder and former faculty adviser, Brian T. Grimberg, is an assistant professor of international health at the university’s medical school, and a specialist in malaria."
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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