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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biosensor Chip

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An MIT-invented microfluidics device could help doctors diagnose sepsis, a leading cause of death in US hospitals, by automatically detecting elevated levels of a sepsis biomarker in about 25 minutes, using less than a finger prick of blood.

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Felice Frankel

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