Sunday, July 27, 2014

USB Bio-Lab

Guardian UK: Christofer Toumazou's 'lab on a chip' makes preventing illness possible - Greek-Cypriot engineer wins European inventor award for USB device that decodes patient's DNA within minutes outside a lab
"My dream was to have a handheld consumer device with … a little USB stick that could look at rapidly screening for genetic mutations of particular diseases, whether it is a predisposition to type two diabetes [or] whether to a type of breast cancer," said Toumazou in his office in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

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