First Ever Conference on Biochip Security Sees Risks and Rewards at the Nexus of Biochemical and Electrical Engineering

Today there are some 10 billion connected devices — excluding smartphones and computers — and those numbers are growing fast. One driver: mobile applications for medical devices, including biochips (devices that combine biochemistry and electrical and computer processing to run chemical reactions — sometimes many at once at the microscopic level). Paired with microfluidic systems, these “lab on a chip” technologies could revolutionize remote sensors, environmental sampling procedures, and medical tests for coagulation, blood gas electrolytes, hematology, urine chemistry, cardiac markers, and more.