Sunday, August 14, 2011

$1 Chip to Test for HIV in 15 Minutes, Fits in Your Wallet

from WickedGayBlog.com by WickedGayBlog.com
For most of us, getting tested for STDs, including HIV, means a trip to the doctor’s office or local clinic. Vials of blood, and days, weeks (in some cases even months), later you’re left anxiously awaiting the results. A new tiny invention called mChip, a clear credit-card looking device that fits easily in your wallet, aims to change all of that.

A team from Columbia University in New York has come up with the mChip. The cheap and portable piece of equipment gives HIV and syphilis test results in just a few minutes with a rate of almost 100 percent accuracy, according to several researchers.

The mChip works with only a tiny finger-prick amount of blood. One drop of blood goes onto the device’s microfluidics-based optical chip. Fifteen minutes pass and then - voila! -- the device will confirm whether or not you have an STD. Full story here!



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