Nature Video: Miniature lab can diagnose disease in the field

July 29, 2011

A credit card-sized device called the mChip can diagnose HIV and syphilis in minutes in the remotest reaches of the developing world. The device, which was successfully field tested in Rwanda, is described in the August 2011 issue of Nature Medicine.

Watch the video here.

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