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(1/n) Latest pre-print from lab! Octopi; open configurable high-throughput imaging platform. Led by an incredible graduate student @hongquan_li - we crack puzzle of automated low-cost malaria diagnosis. Remember, malaria still kills ~1/2million people/year biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
(2/n)The empathy & wicked building skills that @hongquan_li brings to this project is innumerable. He has been the most amazing partner. Many people helped including Hazel (malaria samples), Maxime and Lucas (AI), Thibaut who traveled with me. Here is Hongquan supervising a build 
(3/n) Let me first tell you a story of why we built Octopi. Imagine you are lab tech in a remote hospital with hundreds of patients waiting all day outside the clinic everyday. They all want to know - are they sick from a deadly disease like malaria. You work 10hrs/day non-stop.
