{"528671":{"#nid":"528671","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chip Tracks Cells by Giving Each One a Digital Code","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo track cells, new lab-on-a-chip technology is borrowing a technique used by cellular networks to track phones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device, a type of microfluidic chip, uses a simple circuit pattern with just three electrodes to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels on the chip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFatih Sarioglu, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, says it\u2019s a way to digitize the information from such chips.\u0026nbsp;The ultimate goal is to use these inexpensive chips to conduct sophisticated medical testing outside hospitals and clinics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-04-25 09:30:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"reconfigurable transceivers","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/microfluidic-chip-digital-codes-1146342-2\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}