Reporter Kara Tsuboi interviews researchers at the University of California, Berkeley who are working on a new blood-analysis chip or Self-powered Integrated Microfluidic Blood Analysis System (SIMBAS), that can potentially detect hundreds of diseases at once in a matter of minutes.

Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee and post-doctoral researcher Ivan Dimov are at the end of the first phase of testing. They say the  project will make testing for infectious disease faster, cheaper, and easier, which is especially important in developing nations where resources are scarce.

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