A Turkish researcher at the University of Toronto designed a diagnostic microchip to swiftly determine antibiotic-resistant bacteria and what particular viruses would destroy them.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Dr. Enver Gurhan Kilinc said that the microchip they had designed was making “significant contributions” to treatments by reducing overall costs and saving a lot of time.
Kilinc said the small chip reduced the testing time from at least two days to 15 minutes, enabling doctors to treat bacterial infections much faster than before.
The microchip can also be used in the treatment of phage, also known as bacteriophage, which uses bacterial viruses to treat bacterial infections and is accepted as an alternative to antibiotics.