Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 259174, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/259174
Research Article

Bio-Inspired Microsystem for Robust Genetic Assay Recognition

Jaw-Chyng Lue1 and Wai-Chi Fang2

1Department of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
2Department of Electronics Egineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, China

Received 14 January 2008; Accepted 25 March 2008

Academic Editor: Daniel Howard

Copyright © 2008 Jaw-Chyng Lue and Wai-Chi Fang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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