Lab-On-A-Chip... is coming

In a piece titled Healthcare - Days of Future Past , BRT talked about the upcoming tsnami that's coming to medicine when lab-on-a-chip technology, used in conjunction with IBM's Watson and the web, will force change upon medicine in ways today's dysfunctional environment cannot hold back simply because the efficiencies gained, by using this tech, in terms of proper and prompt diagnosis of patient conditions, with suggested procedures, will render obsolete the current way medicine is being conducted all over the world. Seems the LOAC part of the equation is coming, sooner, rather then later, thanks to revolutionary research done at the University of Rochester.

A new, super-thin silicon membrane could lead to “lab-on-a-chip” diagnostic devices the size of credit cards, say researchers.

The ability to shrink laboratory-scale processes to automated chip-sized systems would revolutionize biotechnology and medicine. For example, the US military and homeland security efforts need inexpensive and highly portable devices that process blood samples to detect biological agents such as anthrax.

The Times, they are a changing - Dylan