Business News Agency September 14th reporter learned from the 2010 National Maternal and Child Health Care Hotspot (Guangzhou) Forum on the 12th that as a high incidence of thalassemia (referred to as “thalassaemia”), Guangdong is developing a rapid gene detection chip for the Mediterranean, and it is expected to be available next year. Successfully developed.

Yin Aihua, deputy director of the Prenatal Diagnosis Center of Guangdong Maternal and Child Health Hospital, disclosed that as the birth defect research sub-center of the Beijing National Engineering Research Center for Biochips, the birth defects detection chip that is being researched and developed by women and children in the province currently includes a thalassemia rapid detection chip. According to reports, Guangdong is a place of high incidence of “thalassaemia,” and 10%-15% of Cantonese people carry the “thalassaemia” gene. There are more than 300 severe thalassemia children admitted every year by the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangdong Province.

Yin Aihua said that the traditional genetic testing of the thalassemia is cumbersome, time-consuming, error-prone and impossible to detect large samples. The availability of a thalassaemia gene detection chip can make up for this deficiency. It can be used to detect "thalassaemia" for up to 6 hours and produce 10,000 samples at the same time. This allows for a wide range of screening.

Cheng Jingzhe, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed at the forum that a genetically deafness gene detection chip has been successfully developed in China and that the risk of deafness in the next generation can be predicted by simply rooting the hair or drawing blood for testing.