New lab-on-a-chip may be game-changer
by Marlowe Hood, COSMOS Magazine (follow link to original article and full story)
PARIS: A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting HIV, syphilis and other infectious diseases, according to a new study.
Researchers tested prototypes of the credit card-sized lab-on-a-chip with hundreds of patients in Rwanda, reporting nearly 100% accuracy.
The so-called ‘mChip’, they said, could help knock down three barriers to effective delivery of health care into the world’s poorest regions: difficult access, high costs and long delays for results.
