Name: Bio-lab on a microchip
Uploaded: 2010-04-21T09:05:00Z
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic lab -- by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip.

Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic lab -- by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip.

Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip

Bio-lab on a microchip

Sub-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of HIV/AIDS, a paradox of high disease burden yet low medical resources to combat it.

Western generosity with free drugs is pivotal, yet without diagnostics, it risks breeding drug-resistant HIV strains globally.

Innovating healthcare through microfluidic chips, offering a leap in affordable, large-scale diagnostics in resource-poor settings.