Credit Card Sized mChip Can Diagnose Disease in the Field

Posted on August 31, 2011

Nature reports that a new credit card sized device, called mChip, can be used to diagnose diseases like HIV and syphilis in minutes. The device could act as a mobile lab that would be extremely useful in the developing world. Nature reports the the mChip was successfully field tested in Rwanda. The mChip is also cheap to manufacture, is highly accurate and requires just a single pin-prick of blood. Take a look:

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