Cheaper and More Precise Biosenser With New Glass Stamp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Study

In the future microchip technology may be sufficiently advanced enough to allow clinicians to perform tests, for example, separating specific molecules like early stage cancer cells, for literally hundreds of diseases by using just one drop of blood. However, manufacturing such "chip laboratory" designs is a technically challenging, time-consuming and expensive tasks as it involves assembling tiny, integrated diagnostic sensor arrays on surfaces as small as a square centimeter. The new technique is reported in the Sept. 21 online edition of the journal Nanotechnology.

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