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The Robot That Could Kill Malaria

Future Science

Unlike polio and typhoid, there’s no malaria vaccine—but Dr. Stephen Hoffman says he’s got one. Now he’s launched a crowd-funding site to make a ‘SpoRobot’ to deliver the knockout blow.

Eleanor Clift

Published May 8 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/05/08/the-robot-that-could-kill-malaria/140507-clift-malaria-tease_mbn35x — Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters

Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift

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