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Biochip  Description :  Bio-chip is a new micro-analysis technique. It has been rapidly developped because of its characteristics such as accurate, rapid and large amount of information. A biochip is a device that has some of the features of a computer chip but, instead of doing calculations, it uses living cells(or molecules from living cells) to greatly speed up certain laboratory tests.A typical biochip is a glass or plastic chip or tile a few inches on a side. It has hundreds or even tens of thousands of microscope droplets of material stuck to its surface like gum on a sidewalk. A computer looks at the chip using a camera. Information from a biochip can be used to learn about differences between genes,cells or drugs. It can also be used to study many other questions about cells. Biochips are also called microarrays, where micro means  smal  and an array is any regular grid,such as a chessboard. The droplets on a biochip are laid down in a checkerboa...