MicroArray and Biochip technologies
enabling optical biochips research...
The demand for biological analyses is undergoing explosive growth. Moving analyses to the micro level offers important economies of scale but also opens up exciting opportunities.
Biostatus is proud to be involved in the Optical Biochips project, This multidisciplinary project is led by Professor Paul Smith at the Wales College of Medicine and includes a consortium of Cardiff University, University of Bangor and the Gray Cancer Institute (London), with collaborative links to the University of Warwick and premier US laboratories.
The project aims to bring down to a micro-scale all of the main components of the light emitting and collecting devices used to analyse biological samples in a modern life sciences laboratory including lasers the size of a single human cell. This optical laboratory on a chip will be integrated with specially engineered micro trafficking systems that can move samples and live cells around for processing. These "optical biochips", will use light to excite specially designed fluorescent chemicals that can reveal important features about each cell such as how it responds to a drug or whether or not it is diseased.
In creating these portable devices basic technological problems will be solved with massive benefits both to research from physics to medicine and to UK competitiveness. This basic technological know-how would bring widespread practical benefits such as increasing the success rate of drug discovery, in genomics research, in the routine diagnosis of disease, developing new ways for the rapid transmission of information and operation of ultra-fast computers.
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