It aims to bring together advances in artificial intelligence, wireless sensing, imaging diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, and molecular biology.

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We already have Watson, the lab-on-a-chip tech is a few years out as well ( see the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize).

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Besides mixing, Dr Wixforth also showed how SAWs could channel fluids as part of more complex tasks on so-called microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices.

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Quake must outrace rivals doing similar work at dozens of university labs, as well as such firms as Caliper Technologies, that are pursuing different lab-on-a-chip technologies.

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Like the lab-on-a-chip that allows people in remote parts of the world to test for HIV and syphilis, OraQuick can save lives by giving people hesitant to go to the clinic a test they can perform relatively easily and in the privacy of their own homes.

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