HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES – SMART ELECTRONICS
and doctors for this new method, as the procedure itself is faster and simpler: “One of the prototypes is quite advanced, though they are currently still in the lab,” says Le Moullec. This kind of innovation could be patented, and his team has been at this stage before, they also plan to commercialise this invention as well. Although they are not the only ones working in the field, their uniqueness stands out in the realm of electrical bio-impedance. Their method can be used in other devices as well; Professor Le Moullec reveals that the group is working on other applications, which are also based on impedance (for example, the measurement of metals) or bio-impedance. “They are not as advanced as the cardiovascular one, but the group continues to work on them. The device will be different, but impedance is the focus,” he adds.
A little smart device changes a lot The other group liaised by Yannick Le Moullec, known as the ‘Lab-ona-Chip’ workgroup, is working on a ground-breaking device that could revolutionise the medical sector.
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The goal here is to create user-friendly and automated bioanalyzers that perform traditional laboratory analyses in a compact and portable format (Lab-on-a-Chip) which can be used to analyse various cells, e.g. bacteria for antibiotic susceptibility, differentiating cancer cells from healthy cells, etc. Le Moullec says that more recently, their work has focused on imple-
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