January 28, 2016, Filed Under: collaborators, DIY Research, MosquitoDIY funded by Gates GCE Grant for Mosquito Diagnostics Undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens. These diagnostics will combine a simple mosquito-processing device by Paratus Diagnostics with molecular technology to transduce the presence/absence of pathogens into a chemical signal for reading on a common pregnancy test strip. Freshman Researchers Receive Grand Challenges Explorations Grant