Thursday, October 8, 2009

Could a microchip help to diagnose cancer in minutes?

Current cancer screening often requires painful procedures and weeks of waiting to obtain results. But what if doctors could read a biological sample with a small hand-held device and come back with an answer in less than an hour?

to read the entire article, see :
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=could-a-microchip-help-to-diagnose-2009-09-28

-posted by bexchada

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