A tiny new silicon-based lab-on-chip test could pave the way for cheap handheld infectious disease testing. The chip, developed at Imperial College London and known as TriSilix, is a ‘micro laboratory’ which performs a miniature version of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the spot. PCR is the gold-standard test for detecting viruses and bacteria […]
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