How thermoforming could bring diagnosis to the point of care
Lab-on-a-chip technology promises to speed up disease diagnosis and bring it to the point of patient care. These “labs” are actually disks designed with microsized channels and chambers that are prefilled with small amounts of diagnostic reagents. The consumable disks are placed into tabletop centrifuge systems where they are filled with patient fluid samples or swab samples; as the fluids pass through the channels and into chambers, the system optically detects positive or negative test results. Hahn-Schickard has been manufacturing lab-on-a-chip systems since 2007, calling the technolog...
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