Implantable Medical Laboratory-on-a-Chip Continuously Monitors Key Chemicals in Chemotherapy and High-Risk Patients

Nov 25, 2013 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations

This innovative gadget can also telephone the doctor to warn of an eminent event, like heart attack, before it occurs French researchers are zeroing in on a tiny, chip-based medical laboratory test device designed to be implanted under the skin. This miniature blood laboratory may revolutionize healthcare by continuously monitoring high-risk, chronically ill patients. This ground-breaking work is being done by developers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), or Swiss...
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