Electronic chip to detect Sars

[Aidoneus]

Electronic chip to detect Sars

John Aglionby in Jakarta
Monday October 6, 2003
The Guardian

Singapore hopes to launch in January an electronic chip that will give an almost instant diagnosis of whether a person has Sars, dengue fever, flu or some other respiratory illness.

Ren Ee Chee of the government-run Genome Institute of Singapore told the island republic's Sunday Times newspaper that the respiratory pathogens detection chip would undergo testing soon in conjunction with an unnamed US company.

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It is also hoping to turn Singapore into a global biomedical hub as part of its strategy to diversify an economy battered by the technology slump. High-profile scientists including Ian Wilmut, who cloned Dolly the sheep, have been lured to the tightly controlled state.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sars/story/0,13036,1056738,00.html

[cthrumatrix]

1. Anytime I hear chips in humans based on medical claims ..I worry

[Eloriel]

2. Me too

And call me a tinfoil hatter, but they've got chips so small now that I worry if they might not be small enough to be injected via vaccinations.

Eloriel

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Chip is not in humans

"Detection probes on the chip, which is about the size of a 10p coin, will analyse saliva or nasal mucus dropped on to it and deliver a rapid diagnosis"

Less invasive than a thermometer.

[Aidoneus]

3. that's why I posted it..

that, and the economic/profiteering angle.