The chip sees dozens of diseases in just one drop of blood

People will no longer spend time and money on laboratory tests, because a newly released chip can replace several laboratories that specialize in blood tests to help confirm the disease. Diagnosing underlying diseases for early treatment.

Analyze the substance in the blood, under the microscope microscope zoom magnification. Photo: Daily-diabetic.com

The new technique was developed by a team of California Institute of Technology scientists and the Institute for Systems Biology called the Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip, abbreviated as IBBC).

IBBC itself can replace several laboratories that specialize in blood tests. The IBBC flat plate size is only small, with a small glass plate usually placed on a microscope plate, and it is also made of glass. More precisely, the glass is only made of a base, which is covered with a layer of silicon.

The chip works on the same principle as the biological chips that have been mentioned in science such as cell biology chips or genetic chips.

If we wanted to determine the presence of certain molecules (in this case, protitants), we would simply pass a sample line through a branched network of specific traps. , designed to retain only one type of molecule.

Lead researcher James Heath at Caltech: "We expect IBBC to be suitable for cheap testing purposes ." Photo: Caltech.edu

Then, under a microscope, the microscope was able to detect any protitin in the sample.

Specialists from this result, have the ability to simultaneously confirm a variety of diseases have emerged or some other disease is diagnosed for early treatment, because many diseases, when the effect is too late .

We all know that protitins and their precursors are developed under a rigorous test of cellular function.

It is the cells that can 'understand' cell division at a certain point in time or the deviation, disorder - symptoms of cancer.

Intervention in this timely manner is essential to prevent progression.