Getting tested for STDs used to intend a doctor’s visit, vials of blood, and days, weeks, or maybe months of anxiously looking ahead to results . mChip aims to alter all that, while simultaneously ridding your brain of viable excuses to not get tested. It really works as such: one drop of blood goes at the microfluidics-based optical chip, quarter-hour pass, and boom, the AmEx-sized device will confirm whether you’ve gotten syphilis and / or HIV. The bantam gizmo is practically foolproof, as reading the implications doesn’t require any human interpretation whatsoever. Plus, it’s cheap — cheaper than a coffee at Starbucks. One dollar cheap. Researchers at Columbia University claim the mChip has a one hundred pc detection rate, although there is a four to 6 percent chance of having a false positive — a stat rather like traditional lab tests. As you’d likely expect, there’s hope that the cheap mChip might be useful testing efforts in places like Africa to detect HIV before it becomes AIDS. Next stop: the self-service pharmacy at CVS?
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