A new point-of-care biochip enables rapid detection of nucleic acids in blood samples, paving the way for quick, cheap tests for HIV, MRSA, and numerous other diseases. Video Credit: Yeh et al. Sci. Adv. 2016;3:e1501645 Ideally, an urgent diagnosis occurs rapidly and at … Continue reading
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Journal Club: New chip allows for rapid, low-cost disease diagnosis from small DNA, RNA samples
Categories: Applied Biological Sciences | Biochemistry | Infectious disease | Journal Club | Medical Sciences
Tagged biochip, HIV, lab on a chip, MRSA, point-of-care
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Journal Club: Layer-cake chemistry offers up a cheap way to perform chemical tests
Sana Jahanshahi-Anbuhi started her study with a trip to the supermarket to buy Listerine breath strips, the sort that melt on your tongue in seconds. But the chemical engineering postdoc at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada wasn’t worried about bad … Continue reading
Categories: Biochemistry | Chemistry | Environmental Sciences | Journal Club | Microbiology | Pharmacology
Tagged chemical test, drugs, E. coli, genome sequencing, lab on a chip
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