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ASTANA – The Hoope, a home detection kit to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases that was the brainchild of a team including Kazakh biotechnologist Damel Mektepbayeva, is expected to go into mass production next year, Forbes.kz reports.
“Each year, 500 million people get infected with one of the four most common sexually transmitted diseases,” a video for the Hoope project on the Singularity University website says. “We’re hoping we can create a behaviour change in teenagers by combining easy diagnostics with education at this crucial point in their lives. Nowadays, …read more
Source: The Astana Times
