The goal of Mirela Alistar's work with personal biochips is to makeÌýhealthcare more affordable, effective and personal by buildingÌýdevices that could potentially beÌýused by patients to perform their own medical tests at home.ÌýInstead of lab technicians adding reagents, antigens and other solutions to biological samples in numerous time-consuming steps, the new programmable microfluidic biochips use electrical voltage to transport and combine droplets of fluid across an array of small electrodes, moving biological samples to combine with reagents andÌýreplicating the exact procedures that happenÌýin the laboratory.

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