A micro-lab on a chip detects blood type within minutes
Monday, July 13, 2020 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
The need to first zero in on a blood group can delay blood transfusions in emergency situations, and this in turn can prove fatal. Thus, to speed up the process, a team of scientists has developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can not only tell the blood type within five minutes but allows medical staff to read the results through simple visual inspections.