Once upon a time, tasters were employed by the well-to-do, in order to check that their food or drink wasn't poisonous. Today, there are electronic biosensors that can do more or less the same thing. Unfortunately, as was no doubt sometimes the case with the tasters, the biosensors can’t always give us immediate results. Additionally, they’re usually only able to test for specific substances, and not simply for “anything that’s toxic.” An experimental new device known as the Dip Chip, however, is said to address both of those problems... Continue Reading Dip Chip biosensor uses microbes to detect almost any toxic substance, right away
Section: Electronics
Tags: Biosensor, Microbes, Poisons, Tel Aviv University, toxic
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