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lab on a chip |
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lab on a chipA semiconductor chip used to analyze the composition of a person's body fluids (blood, saliva, urine) for medical purposes. It combines microfluidics and semiconductor processing on the same chip. See microfluidics and nanotechnology. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Agilent provided MRI with the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer and Agilent 5100 automated lab on a chip in order to evaluate the capability of the analytical instruments in high-throughput pathogen detection. Past R&D 100 Awards have included products with household names such as Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996) and HDTV (1998). Leveraging the strengths of Microcosm's existing MEMCAD design environment for MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) design, Microcosm has extended its current offering into many new areas of microfluidics and microchemistry important to the lab on a chip market segment. |
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