Chip to Detect Avian Flu in Humans in Development
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Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
This must be the week for health-related tech news. Yesterday we posted a story on the “Malaria Monitor“; today we have news of a disposable microchip under development by STMicroelectronics that can confirm a human case of bird flu. The hope is to have development complete before the next flu season (though I’m not sure the flu season has to do with avian flu :-)).
The company is working with Singapore-based medical diagnostics company Veredus Laboratories Pte Ltd., which launched last year a test kit which detects the H5N1 strain in both humans and poultry within about four hours.
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