Klin Onkol 2006; 19(Suppl2): 331-332.
Abstract
Biochip technologies have arisen and expanded during the last decade and the scope of them is now very broad. At the very beginning the analyzed substance was nucleic acid, but also proteins and carbohydrates (sugars) became the targets and the same term covers also cells and tissues now. The technology evolved by increasing the number of detections made simultaneously on one chip and reached the possibility to test all human genes at once, the other way led to specific sets with limited number of probes e.g. all known mutations of one gene, or genes participating in one pathway or function.
