“Protein-Friendly” Chip Offers Rapid Disease Testing

A device capable of spotting diseases in the tiniest drop of blood or urine has been developed by UK scientists. It is 10 times smaller than existing sensors and can detect a range of protein molecules associated with different diseases.Christoph Wälti and Giles Davies and colleagues at the University of Leeds used electrodes instead of conventional glass slides to make their device.

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