Lab-On-A-Chip Offers Cheap Alternative To Medical Diagnostics Tests

A novel device that can significantly lessen the cost of sophisticated laboratory tests for medical disorders and diseases such as HIV, Lyme disease and syphilis have been developed by engineers from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Dubbed “ELISA-on-a-chip” which means enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, the device uses miniaturised channels and valves to replace benchtop assays, or tests that require large samples of blood or other fluids and expensive chemicals manually mixed in trays of tubes or plastic plates.

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