About the size of a stapler, this new handheld device developed in Switzerland is able to test a large number of proteins in our body all at once-a subtle combination of optical science and engineering. Could it be possible one day to do a complete checkup without a doctor’s visit? EPFL’s (Swiss Federal Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne, a Global Top 20 university) latest discovery is headed in that direction. Professor Hatice Altug and postoctoral fellow Arif Cetin, in collaboration with Prof. Aydogan Ozcan from UCLA, have developed an “optical lab on a chip.”
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