Special: Lab-on-a-Chip

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Has the stork been at our house or not? A pregnancy test rapidly brings certainty. Those and other simple lab-on-a-chip-systems have already been on the market. However, with the aid of micro-labs there may be complex analysis possible in future.

Whether labs-on-chips will soon supersede big laboratories read in the COMPAMED.de’s Special.

Minimal area, maximal capacity. That is the aim of lab-on-a-chips-systems, which are also called labs in pocket size. Simple systems of this type are in the marketplace yet. The development for further lab-on-a-chip-systems runs at full speed.

- Lab-on-a-Chip: „Pocket-Sized Labs are Already Daily Routine for Diabetics”

Testing people for heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern Universities in Boston.

- Cardiology: Detecting Heart Disease

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