NANOTECHNOLOGY

France's Atomic Energy Commission at Evry, in the Ile-de-France region. The intersection of microelectronics, microsystems, and biology, biochips are intended for use in a biological environment. A biochip is a collection of miniaturized test sites (microarrays) arranged on a solid substrate that permits many tests to be performed at the same time in order to achieve higher throughput and speed. Measuring only a few square centimeters, a biochip can perform thousands of biological reactions, such as quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time or analyze events in a single cell. The chips have a variety of applications: research, medecine, pharmaceutics, diagnosis and treatment, public health, agroalimentation and the environment, biological engineering and biotechnologies.
Microgrid: robot (48 simultaneous needles) which lays down cultures to be analyzed on the strips.