London, Dec. 28: Your family doctor will no longer have to send blood or cancer cell samples to the lab. A little chip will give him test results on the spot. The new health chip looks like a credit card.
The EU’s MicroActive project has developed an integrated system based on microtechnology and biotechnology that will enable a number of conditions to be diagnosed in the doctor’s own office.
The chip is engraved with a number of narrow channels that contain chemicals and enzymes in the correct proportions for individual analysis.