Rice University's Lab-in-a-Backpack (IMAGE)

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Rice University's Lab-in-a-Backpack

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Rice student Catherine Slater demonstrates a diagnostic Lab-in-a-Backpack to doctors at a hospital outside Kigali, Rwanda. The pack, designed by students in Rice's Beyond Traditional Borders initiative, contains tools to allow health care providers to perform basic diagnostic exams in remote settings in the developing world.

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R. Richards-Kortum/Rice University

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