Comment Re:Finally! (Score 1) 91
Or it may be your blood floating through a little nanomachine.
We have heard enough about 'System-on-a-Chip', nows its time for 'Lab-on-a-chip'
Agilent has an interesting blurb on the subject.
The lab-on-chip concept envisages such things as a disposable device smaller than a postage stamp, with the ability to steer blood and reagents around on a electrode grid or nanotubes. Mix, split, deliver to sensors. Results provided electronically to an external device. Blood work can be done on the spot without waiting for lab results. In large part these devices could be fabricated using technology very similar to that which produces the nm range features for current ICs.
We have heard enough about 'System-on-a-Chip', nows its time for 'Lab-on-a-chip'
Agilent has an interesting blurb on the subject.
The lab-on-chip concept envisages such things as a disposable device smaller than a postage stamp, with the ability to steer blood and reagents around on a electrode grid or nanotubes. Mix, split, deliver to sensors. Results provided electronically to an external device. Blood work can be done on the spot without waiting for lab results. In large part these devices could be fabricated using technology very similar to that which produces the nm range features for current ICs.
