A portable blood test that can diagnose an infection within minutes has been hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the developing world. The size of a credit card, the mChip ...

Called mChip, the handheld device uses a microchip to perform intricate medical tests for illnesses such as sexually transmitted diseases or prostate cancer. It needs just a drop of blood to diagnose ...

People who live in the poorest and remotest parts of the developing world often have their lives cut short by disease -- preventable or curable disease. The first essential step to fighting these ...

Getting tested for STDs used to mean a doctor's visit, vials of blood, and days, weeks, or even months of anxiously waiting for results. mChip aims to change all that, while simultaneously ridding ...

What if there was a drug test that could change modern medicine? According to a new trialpublished in Nature Medicine, a device called the mChip could change the way scientists test for HIV and ...

Scientists have developed an inexpensive, portable blood test kit that can tell within minutes whether a person has HIV or syphilis. The device was successfully field tested in the African nation of ...

A low-cost device that can speed up HIV diagnosis manifold and help provide the world's remote areas with lab-quality diagnostic services available only in bigger cities has been devised by scientists ...

Quidel Corporation has announced an exclusive, worldwide license to the MChip microarray based influenza detection technology developed by scientists at the University of Colorado (CU) in ...