Biological Chips For Disease Detection, Drug Discovery, Now Easy To Make With New Method
Friday, August 22, 2008 - 11:21
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have developed a new and fast method for making biological ‘chips’ – technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection of MRSA infections and rapid discovery of new drugs. Protein chips – or ‘protein arrays’ as they are more commonly known – are objects such as slides that have proteins attached to them and allow important scientific data about the behavior of proteins to be gathered.