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Boffins read blood with transistor
Mobile phone becomes a doctor
Tue Jun 26 2007, 08:11
A TEAM of South Korean boffins has worked out a way to use cheap transistor to make a cut-price biosensor which
can tell if you are sick.
According to AFP the state-run Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology worked out that transistors can be used not only for computers but also for devices that convert biological responses into electrical signals.
Top boffin Choi Yang-Kyu said that the biosensors detect biological responses or changes and convert them into an electrical signal that can be read.
The technology creates a tiny gap on a transistor to fill it with bio-molecules, or biologically responsive materials that detect diseases.
The aim is to get the technology so that it can be put into a mobile phone. Then you can shout "I am a type 2 diabetic" when you are on the train.
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