CDC Unveils the FluChip | CIO Insight

CDC Unveils the FluChip

Written By
Stacy Lawrence
Stacy Lawrence
Aug 30, 2006
1 minute read

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a microchip-based test that distinguishes between flu strains and can even help trace the strains back to their origins.

The FluChip can be used to identify 72 influenza strains—including the H5N1 avian influenza strain that is currently of such concern—in fewer than 12 hours.

This technology can be used to make sophisticated influenza diagnostic capabilities more widely available to labs around the globe, not just concentrated with the CDC and a few major international laboratories.

Read the full story on eWEEK.com: CDC Unveils the FluChip

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