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Article: High-speed assay on the way: a microchip-based immunoassay system developed by a team at the University of Tokyo and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology could soon be delivering a variety of clinical diagnoses on the spot, write Kitamori Takehiko and Sato Kiichi. (New Technology).(Brief Article)
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- May 1, 2002
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RECENT research into the integration of chemical systems into microchips has received much attention. This re, search has shown that chemical reaction processes that used to require beakers, flasks or large chemical reactors can now be conducted on microchips that are just a few centimeters in diameter. Just as the integration of electronic circuits on semiconductor chips spurred the rapid development of the world of computers, it can also bring about revolutionary change in the field of chemistry.
The integration of chemical reactions on microchips greatly reduces the amount of the sample, reagent and energy needed for the reaction as well as the amount of waste ...