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Uploaded by on Jul 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 issue of Nature Medicine: www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nm.2408.html

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  • HI HO SILVER AWAY!

  • nice info

  • The guy at 0:36 sounds like Lumpy Space Princess.

    Well anyway, this is really cool :D!

  • Man it always seems to be western chinese living in the US that come up with these advanced scientific solutions.

  • 20 min they should use this in regular hospitals

  • Thumbs up to these clever people who are working for the benefit of humanity.

  • impressive !

  • Mmmmm. Chips. Seriously though, this is a really interesting story!

  • Best part of their job? Watching the blood go back and forth! So cool!

  • cool

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