Inexpensive Blood Testing Device
March 12, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
Researchers in Houston have a prototype of a microfluidics device that can test for 50 substances (e.g. drugs, toxins) in blood. Its design has two layers of credit-card-sized glass with 50 wells and one channel that moves a drop of blood from one well to the others. Each well contains an antibody, a catalyst, hydrogen peroxide and a dye which carries out reactions to specific proteins and allows a measurement based on the dye’s intensity. MORE
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