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Prototype lab in a needle

23-Nov-2015

Key points from article :

Can test liver toxicity in 30 minutes instead of several days.

Could condense the entire laboratory process into the sample collection device.

Sample preparation on microfluidic chip and while amplification performed on a second connected chip.

Next steps are to integrate chips, scale up for mass production and test for other health conditions.

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Diagnostics