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Electronic chip to detect Sars John Aglionby in Jakarta Monday October 6, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Singapore hopes to launch in January an electronic chip that will give an almost instant diagnosis of whether a person has Sars, dengue fever, flu or some other respiratory illness. Ren Ee Chee of the government-run Genome Institute of Singapore told the island republic's Sunday Times newspaper that the respiratory pathogens detection chip would undergo testing soon in conjunction with an unnamed US company. Detection probes on the chip, which is about the size of a 10p coin, will analyse saliva or nasal mucus...