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Creating a lab on a chip

Rahim Esfandyarpour, a researcher from Stanford University in California, describes how a simple printer can be used to create a ‘clinical’ laboratory on a microchip. The device could enable cheap and effective medical diagnosis in poor and remote areas of the globe.

Picture: Rahim Esfandyarpour helped to develop the diagnostic 'lab on a chip', Credit: Zahra Koochak/Stanford School of Medicine

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