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The discovery of reliable, sensitive, friendly and real time methods to detect the effect on humans and to the environment of chemical/physical exposure are of paramount importance. The great revolution in the clinical testing which is still time-consuming today will be replaced in the near future by Lab-on-a chip devices in which small volumes of blood or fluid are simultaneously subjected to multiple measurements. Microarray analysis chips will also “come into hospitals” and these new techniques will provide rapid information on the genes and proteins present in patient samples. Information from these microarrays may someday predict a patient’s susceptibility to disease before the symptoms manifest, or an individual’s response to drugs before they are taken. These instruments will increase “personalized” medical care by allowing physicians to ask and answer a spectrum of questions.
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Pavlovic, M. (2015). Bioinstrumentation: Basic Information. In: Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10798-1_16
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