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A USB For Medical DiagnosisDavis CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2010 Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a plug-in interface for the microfluidic chips that will form the basis of the next generation of compact medical devices. They hope that the "fit to flow" interface will become as ubiquitous as the USB interface for computer peripherals. UC Davis filed a provisional patent on the invention Nov. 1. A paper describing the devices was published online by the journal Lab on a Chip. "We think there is a huge need for an interface to bridge mi ... read more |
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