Soon your doctor will be able to give you instant diagnosis in his/her office. Researchers are coming up with a health chip that will be able to detect the presence of any disease. With the technology we have now, many tests are done on blood samples, and these tests can take several long weeks, Also, the diagnosis error rates are high. With this health chip you receive instant diagnosis, sometimes right in the doctor's office.
"SINTEF has coordinated the project, whose other members include universities, hospitals, and research institutes from Germany and Ireland. The Norwegian NorChip company had the idea for the chip, and has carried out full-scale tests during the project" (sciencedaily.com).
The chip is very small, and resembles a credit card. It contains a complete laboratory right there on the card. The EU project is using cervical cancer cells as a basis for their research. The chip will be able to detect a number of different diseases caused by bacteria and viruses. The chip has small grooves that contain a number of chemicals and enzymes. Samples are drawn into the grooves and mixed with these chemicals and enzymes. It functions just as good if not better than that of a large laboratory, but much faster. Your doctor tests for special biomarkers in the blood sample. It tests for proteins, DNA fragments, or enzymes. The results can be read with a spectrophotometer. This optical instrument reads the fluorescent signals that RNA emit.
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