The device, known as mChip, employs microfluidics, the manipulation of small amounts of fluids, and nanoparticles, said researchers at Columbia Engineering.
The device requires only a tiny finger prick of blood, effective even for a newborn, and within 15 minutes gives quantitative objective results that are not subject to user interpretation.
Read the Nature Medicine report on the mChip lab assay device.
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