Does that hottie has HIV? Put their blood in the DVD player
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 2:49 pm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/12 ... lood_test/
A normal hospital flow cytometry unit, a large "this is the machine that goes ping" style piece of kit
can ya tell it's Friday, and I am kinda bored
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fave bit on this oneCunning Swedish boffins have come up with a new use for the cheap technology in optical DVD drives: it can be used to carry out complex biochemical tests, even to the point of detecting HIV in a blood sample.
This isn't hyperbole - an actual DVD player has been converted into a laser scanning microscope with micrometre resolution and used to conduct HIV tests which would normally call for expensive lab machinery.
“With an ordinary DVD player, we have created a cheap analytical tool for DNA, RNA, proteins and even entire cells,” confirms Aman Russom of the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm.
A normal hospital flow cytometry unit, a large "this is the machine that goes ping" style piece of kit
can ya tell it's Friday, and I am kinda bored
)
