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interesting 'different' use of CDs &
CdRoms :
cut & pasted :
According
to an article in Tape-Disk Business
(http://www.tapediscbusiness.com/0601/0601tdb5.htm),
Burstein
Technologies Inc. (BTI) has demonstrated that
by etching and boring
tiny microfluidic channels in the
disk and embedding various
chemicals along some of those
paths, a disk and a modified disk
player can perform
instant diagnostic blood tests!
A drop of blood is
placed near the center of the disk When the
"player" spins the disk, centrifugal force first separates the
whole
blood from the plasma, and then forces the blood
and plasma through
various on-disk chemical reactions
and tests. The (specialized)
CD-player's laser
then reads the results of the various tests.
BTI
figures that they can incorporate 80% of existing clinical
blood
tests into their CD laboratories, replacing
$150,000+ laboratory
analysis systems with a $1,000
"Labtop" machines that could easily
be used in doctors'
offices, or in tents, to provide inexpensive and
immediate test results.
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