Scientists at IBM have demonstrated their latest innovation, a tiny chip based on silicon that could test for diseases with a small sample of a patient's blood.
The silicon chip requires a tiny drop of blood to test for various diseases, including cardiovascular disease.
A tiny drop of serum or blood is drawn through the fast, portable chip and analyzed for the presence of disease markers.
Sets of micron wide channels let the test sample flow through the chip in approximately 15 seconds, several times faster than traditional tests.
The diagnostic device uses capillary force and the tendency of a liquid to travel in narrow tubes under its own force, instead of using pumps.
The micro-fluidic chip, made of a silicon compound that measures 1 x 5cm, catches disease markers which show up under specific types of light.
"We are giving back precious minutes to doctors so they can make informed and accurate decisions right at the time they need them most to save lives," Emmanuel Delamarche, a research scientist at IBM Research in Zurich said.
Source: PressTV.
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Silicon has been a huge part of our technological evolution, and with the speed at which we are making new discoveries, I think that it was only a matter of time before this was produced. Lately in Germany, there have been mind blowing technological breakthroughs in the medical industry. As Terence McKenna said, We are learning the amount of information in one day, that is equatable to the amount mankind has learned in the past 6,000 years
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