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RIT student wins HackMIT with low-cost medicine testing device

A student from the Rochester Institute of Technology has won HackMIT, a prominent student hackathon, with a low-cost device for testing medicines. The invention aims to make medicine quality checks affordable, a concern in regions where counterfeit or substandard drugs circulate. Details of the student's name and the device's technology have not yet been widely reported.

Why now: The win highlights an affordable innovation addressing medicine safety, a topic of broad public interest.

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