Summary:
A new revolution technology that may become promissing for research, diagnostics and therapy enters into biology
and medicine. The basic idea of the biochip technology is to convert the chemistry of life into a static form
programmed to monitor genes, proteins and relations between them. Biochip programmed by known sequences of
DNA/RNA or proteins can recognized the real genes, mutations, levels of expresion,... Biochip technology is highly
effective method that allows monitoring of thousands of genes/alleles at a time in computerized automatic operations
with minimal volumes of necessary reagents. Biochips promise an important shift in molecular biology, DNA
diagnostics, pharmacology, research in carcinogenesis and other diseases and also the possibility of a better
understanding of the world of biology in its globality.
Key words:
biochip, microarray, molecular biology.
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