IBM Scientists Reinvent Medical Diagnostic Testing

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IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use and can test for many diseases, including one of world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease*. The results are so quick and accurate that a patients serum or blood sample, could be tested immediately following a myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, to enable the doctor to take a course of action and to predict the patients survival rate.

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  • Oh, grey puopon...ah hon... lol

  • This is exciting research!

  • @Avner001 : The test is minimally invasive because you have to remove blood from the patient. However a test requiring less blood than what is provided by a finger prick is much less invasive than having to remove milliliters of blood from patients using a syringe as is currently required in hospitals. To analyze specific proteins in the blood you will probably always have to take blood from the patient. The best option is to minimize the amount of blood.

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