IBM desenvolve laboratório miniaturizado para diagnósticos médicos

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2016/aug/ibm-lab-on-chip-medical-diagnosis.cfm


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"Lab-on-a-chip technologies have become an incredibly helpful diagnostic tool for physicians as they can be significantly faster, portable, easy to use and require less sample volume to help detect diseases.
IBM hopes to eventually shrink the devices down to a single silicon chip that carries all of the processes necessary to analyse a disease that would normally be carried out in a full-scale biochemistry lab.
Its current device is roughly 2cm by 2cm and it is continuing development to increase the device density to improve its functionality."


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"The IBM team targeted exosomes with their device as existing technologies face challenges for separating and purifying exosomes in liquid biopsies.
They range in size from 20-140nm and contain information about the health of the originating cell that they are shed from. Determining the size, surface proteins and nucleic acid cargo carried by exosomes can give essential information about the presence and state of developing cancer and other diseases."