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According to the World Health Organization, malaria is responsible for approximately 445,000 deaths every year. That number may be due to drop, however, as scientists have found that a human-safe blue dye kills parasites in patients' bloodstreams within two days – that's faster than has ever been possible before.
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That's where the methylene blue dye comes in.In field tests conducted in Mali, it was added to artemisinin-based medication, and was found to eradicate all gametocytes in patients' bloodstreams within as little as 48 hours. The dye is typically used in laboratories to distinguish dead cells from living cells, and was reportedly well-tolerated by the test subjects. It does, however, have one interesting side effect.
According to the lead scientist it turns your urine blue, which is reason enough for anybody to take it, really.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 09 2018, @06:47AM
and yes he's michael tiemann's brother. We were friends at Caltech.
I cannot just now recall the dye that he wanted to drink but it would have turned his eyeballs yellow-green as well as made them fluorescent.
However he performed the Ames Assay on it and so determined that it was a mutagen. While he thought it would be quite cool to hang out under blacklights, he didn't think it was quite cool enough.
Fluorescein? Something like that.
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