Japan’s Toray Develops Biochip For 15-Minute Disease Detection
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Toray Industries says it has developed a device that can cut the time for detecting the presence of cancer or other diseases from days to 15 minutes. Toray said its protein biochip, for which it plans to file an approval application by the end of the fiscal year, is capable of analyzing a single drop of blood for the presence of a disease. The company relied on nanotechnology to create a chip the size of a business card containing a tube for the blood, which can be read by an analyzer. (Click here for more - a subscription may be required
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