BioChip Technology

A biochip is a set of diminished microarrays that are placed on a strong substrate that allows many experiments to be executed at the same time to obtain a high throughput in less time. This device contains millions of sensor elements or biosensors. Not like microchips, these are not electronic devices. Each and every biochip can be considered as a microreactor that can detect a particular analyte like an enzyme, protein, DNA, biological molecule or antibody. The main function of this chip is to perform hundreds of biological reactions in a few seconds like decoding genes (a sequence of DNA).

Procedure

The operator generates a low-power electromagnetic field through radio signals.
The fixed biochip gets turn on.
The activated chip transmits the identification code reverse to the operator through radio signals.
Reader strengthens the received code to change it into digital form and finally exhibits it on LCD.

Types

Microfluidic Chip

Microfluidic biochips or lab-on-a-chip are a replacement for a biochemical laboratory. They are used for a large number of reactions such as DNA analysis, molecular biology procedures and many more biochemical reactions.

Protein Chip

A protein microarray or protein chip method is used to follow the actions as well as connections of proteins, and to find out their function on a large scale. The main advantage of protein microarray is that we can track a large number of proteins in parallel.

Gene Chip

A DNA microarray or DNA biochip comprises of a large number of tiny DNA spots which are fixed to a strong surface. It is used to calculate the expression levels for a large number of genes. Each and every DNA mark comprises of probes (the picomoles of a particular gene).

Features

Very small in size, powerful and faster
Perform thousands of biological reactions in a few seconds
Help in various diseases

Applications

For tracing any human being or animal anywhere in the world
For storing and updating the information of a person like medical financial and demographics
Can be applicable in the medical field as a BP sensor, glucose detector, and oxygen sensor

STEMart provides you with a variety of biochip technology equipment or consumables to meet your various R&D and application needs. If you have any questions or requirements for biochip technology, please feel free to contact us.